Detectors & Imaging

PODCAST: Meet Falk Kemper, Fraunhofer IOF

Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast

This episode of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Dr. Falk Kemper, project manager of the Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) project at Fraunhofer IOF.

Nov. 10, 2026

Resources

Get ready for Photonics West 2027!

Nov. 10, 2026

(a) The central cluster of stars in The Starry Night (left), and the Hyades cluster within Taurus (center). Stars in the painting (orange) on the right are overlaid on real stars (blue), and red dashed lines are residual differences. (b) The stars in Café Terrace At Night (left) and the stars around the Summer Triangle (center). The panel on the right follows the same layout.

Scientists reconstruct Van Gogh’s Starry Night sky

Oct. 30, 2026

Illustration of the wavefront shaping principle. When no wavefront shaping is applied, the illumination beam starts to diffusely spread. By optimizing the incoming wavefront, wavefront shaping compensates for scattering and brings the light back into focus.

Bio&Life Sciences

Shaping light to see deeper inside biological tissue

Oct. 29, 2026

Module for testing automotive developments.

Meet Oliver Grass, CEO of Assemblify

Oct. 29, 2026

Conventional CMOS automotive camera with in-camera HDR shows significant motion blur on a road sign.

Single-photon avalanche diode arrays: An avalanche of photon data for sharper imaging

Oct. 27, 2026

FIGURE 1. The lensless gigapixel video camera. Left: A laser diode in the base illuminates the sample by way of a fold mirror, and the coded sensor (inset) records the diffracted light without any lens. Right: Six moments from a gigapixel video of a melting snowflake. Color is optical phase wrapped over 2π, so each fringe is a contour of equal optical thickness; the shifting background tracks the meltwater film.

A lensless chip films gigapixel video

Oct. 19, 2026