Photonics West News

  1. SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, announces its 2025 Society awards 1/9/2025

    The 21 award recipients represent an exciting range of stellar achievements across light-based sciences and technologies.

  2. North Carolina Central University's Patrick Flanigan is 2024 recipient of $100,000 IBM-SPIE HBCU Faculty Accelerator Award in Quantum Optics and Photonics 12/17/2024

    The annual award supports research and education in quantum optics and photonics at historically Black colleges and universities

  3. 2025 SPIE-Franz Hillenkamp Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to Morgan Fogarty 12/11/2024

    The $75,000 annual award will support Fogarty’s translational research, applying diffuse optical tomography to improve recovery of post-stroke patients

  4. Finalists announced for 2025 SPIE Startup Challenge 12/3/2024
  5. TRAQC, ClearVision, And UriMetrics Awarded Top Three Places At 2024 SPIE Startup Challenge 1/31/2024

    Yesterday, at a ceremony during SPIE Photonics West, TRAQC was announced the winner of the $10,000 top prize at the 14th annual SPIE Startup Challenge.

  6. Abrisa Technologies Unveils New Capabilities For Ultra-Thin Glass, Laser Cutting And Coatings For NVIS, ITO Heaters, Imaging, Sensing, And The IR 1/22/2024

    Abrisa Technologies, unveils its new capabilities for ultra-thin glass processing, coatings for NVIS, ITO Heaters, Imaging, Sensing and the IR, and more in a new 16-page Capabilities Brochure.

  7. Heater Solutions For Anti-Fogging And De-Icing Of Window And Display Glass 12/8/2023

    Abrisa Technologies’ ZC&R division provides transparent conductive heaters that are ideal window and display glass solutions when anti-fogging or de-icing and high throughput and clarity are needed.

  8. Bright Ideas — A New Path Toward Quantum Light, 3D Lidar Could Make For Safer Autonomous Driving, Reprogrammable Photonic Microchips Shipped, And More 2/15/2023

    Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in optics and photonics. This week, a look back at Photonics Best … err … West, Wits U researchers find distortion-free forms of structured light, how photonics can help keep it green, and more.

  9. SPIE Celebrates Triumphant 2023 Photonics West, With More Than 22,000 Registered Attendees 2/8/2023

    SPIE marked a triumphant Photonics West last week, with more than 22,000 registered attendees from 85 countries across the international optics and photonics community.

  10. Bright Ideas — Some SPIE Stuff, Why Orlando Is A Photonics Hotbed, A Supermode Optical Resonator, And More 2/8/2023

    Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in optics and photonics. This week, we look at the potential growth of the silicon photonics market, a massive leap in photonic quantum computing, how optical engineers can use Weyl Semimetals, and more.