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Machine vision can be used to harvest lettuce at the peak of ripeness and make multiple passes over a field, maximizing crop yield. Lettuce is currently picked by hand and the field is passed only once, leaving much of the product behind.

Vegebot machine vision automates lettuce harvesting

Once considered a vegetable that could not be harvested by a robot, lettuce could now be picked automatically, maximizing yield and minimizing waste.

The Opioid Detection Challenge aims to detect opioids in mail packages using a suite of scientific technologies.

Headwall hyperspectral sensors enter accelerator stage of Opioid Detection Challenge

The Opioid Detection Challenge is a U.S. program to design equipment that non-invasively detects opioids in mailed packages.

As representatives of Energetiq Technology and Hamamatsu (which acquired Energetiq in 2017) look on, Debbie Gustafson, CEO of Energetiq, cuts the ribbon in the grand opening ceremony for the company's new facility in Wilmington, MA.

Energetiq expands its operations by opening new facility

High-brightness broadband light-source maker Energetiq's new 32,000 sq ft location provides larger labs, engineering space, showroom, and production areas.

The new automated LED lamp calibration lab reduces calibration time and improves calibration accuracy.

New automated NIST lab improves accuracy and shortens LED lamp calibration time

NIST scientists recently automated the calibration lab for LED lamps, allowing them to make some of the best photometry measurements in the world.

Mikrotron's MotionBLITZ Cube high-speed camera is used for troubleshooting purposes in manufacturing.

Mikrotron cameras help drug-dispenser manufacturer optimize manufacturing processes

Decade-long use of a high-speed camera from Mikrotron uncovered manufacturing errors, helping Nemera optimize syringe production and numerous other processes.

A Mini Blackbird SXGA MWIR detector is one of the MWIR detectors that SCD will provide in its three contracts.

SCD awarded several contracts to supply MWIR high-definition detectors

Three contracts totaling $40 million were signed with three different European and North American customers.

Molex is opening an R&D facility in Bridgewater, NJ for wavelength selective switches for the growing datacenter interconnect market.

Molex opens New Jersey R&D facility for optical telecom components

The facility will be a center for excellence in wavelength selective switches for telecommunications and other high-performance networks.

An optical metamaterial surface plus liquid crystal form Lumotive's beam-steering approach for automotive lidar. This image is from Lumotive's website (www.lumotive.com).

Lumotive and Himax collaborate on metasurface approach to beam steering for lidar

Lumotive has an LCOS chip producer, Himax Technologies, for fabrication of its silicon-based metasurface beam-steerer.

Military aircraft, missile tracking systems, and ground troops who rely on night-vision systems could benefit from a new generation of infrared imaging devices made with a powerful semiconducting material developed by University of Arkansas researchers and their colleagues at several institutions.

DoD awards University of Arkansas $7.5M to advance infrared detectors

The $7.5 million dollar award from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is part of its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, or MURI.

The 200 mm wafers are contrasted in size with the new 300 mm wafers produced using nanoimprint lithography (NIL) to support glass technologies for augmented reality/mixed reality (AR/MR).

EVG & SCHOTT partner on 300 mm NIL wafers for AR/MR components

The work will take place at EVG’s NILPhotonics Competence Center, an open innovation incubator for nanoimprint lithography (NIL).

The new laser facility is opened in Kassel, Germany.

HÜBNER Photonics opens new facility to manufacture quantum & AR lasers

The new facility will help them meet the growing demand they see for tunable single-frequency laser sources.

These sensors from the SmartSens/MEMS Drive partnership will feature added stabilization control to the rotation of the sensor, achieving optimal stabilization with no less than 5 axes.

SmartSens partners with MEMS Drive on CMOS chip-based image stabilization

The companies will collaborate on research in the field of CMOS chip-level optical image stabilization (OIS) technologies for new application areas.

Laser Printed Fabric

Laser printing produces waterproof energy-storing e-textiles in minutes

The next generation of waterproof smart fabrics will be printed with conductive graphene elements using a combo of CO2 and ultrafast lasers.

Laser Markets Research president Allen Nogee provides an update of the laser markets for the summer, in advance of his more exhaustive quantitative review that will appear in the January 2020 issue of Laser Focus World magazine.

2019 Mid-Year Laser Update

Margins are high enough on specialty lasers to counter some of the tariffs--not completely but partially.