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A new device generates phonons, tiny units of sound, at ultra-low temperatures, opening the door to “sound lasers” for communication, imaging, and next-generation technologies. https://lnkd.in/dqB3EU67

🏆 Transforming Imaging Technology: Digital Holography Market Overview The Digital Holography Market is witnessing rapid growth as industries increasingly adopt advanced imaging solutions for precision measurement, biomedical diagnostics, industrial inspection, and scientific research. Rising demand for non-contact 3D imaging, real-time visualization, and high-resolution microscopy continues to accelerate market expansion across healthcare, aerospace, automotive, semiconductor, and defense sectors. The Global Digital Holography Market is projected to experience significant growth driven by technological advancements in holographic microscopy, interferometry, and AI-powered imaging systems, supporting wider adoption in medical diagnostics and quality control applications. ➢ 🔽 Access the PDF Sample Report with One Click 📊 https://lnkd.in/gBehWF4r This report provides an all-inclusive environment for analyzing the Global Digital Holography Market. The market estimates provided in the report are the result of in-depth secondary research, primary interviews, and in-house expert reviews. These market estimates have been considered by studying the impact of various social, political, and economic factors along with the current market dynamics affecting the Global Digital Holography Market growth. 📊 Digital Holography Market Segmentation Insights 🔽 By Type : Transmission Holography 🔬 Reflection Holography 🪞 Computer-Generated Holography 💻 Digital Holographic Microscopy 🧪 🔽 By Application : Healthcare & Life Sciences 🏥 Industrial Inspection 🏭 Automotive 🚗 Aerospace & Defense ✈️ Semiconductor Testing ⚙️ Research & Education 🎓 🏆 40 Key Industry Leaders Driving the Market ➡️ Lyncée Tec SA Holoxica Limited Phase Holographic Imaging RealView Imaging EON Reality Leia Inc. Zebra Imaging GEOLA DIGITAL UAB Jasper Display Corp Nanolive SA NVIDIA Microsoft Sony Group Hamamatsu Photonics Nikon Olympus Corporation Hitachi High-Tech Corporation ZEISS Group ZEISS Medical Technology HORIBA SHIMADZU CORPORATION KEYENCE CORPORATION Toshiba Holmarc Opto-Mechatronics Limited MetroLaser, Inc. HoloTech Switzerland AG View Holographics Ltd Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI Holoxica Limited QinetiQ Santec Corporation Optics Balzers Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. Leica Microsystems Baker Hughes Dassault Systèmes #DigitalHolography #Holography #3DImaging #Microscopy #BiomedicalImaging #IndustrialInspection #ScientificResearch #HealthcareTechnology #AIImaging #SemiconductorTesting #OpticalTechnology #PrecisionMeasurement #LifeSciences

🔬 What happens when optical systems become sensitive enough to detect signals approaching the fundamental limits of measurement itself?   A recent study in Light: Science & Applications explores an advanced photonic sensing strategy designed to enhance the detection and manipulation of extremely weak optical responses.   By engineering the interaction between light and complex photonic structures, the researchers demonstrate how subtle optical signals can be amplified, stabilised, and extracted with improved precision. Rather than relying on larger or more power-intensive systems, the work highlights how carefully tailored photonic environments can fundamentally reshape nanoscale sensing performance.   📈 As next-generation sensing technologies continue to demand higher sensitivity, lower noise, and greater integration, approaches like this may help advance future applications in precision metrology, biomedical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and intelligent photonic systems.   🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/eWW9nwgS  #Photonics #OpticalSensing #Nanophotonics #IntegratedPhotonics #Optics

⚡The Grain of Salt That Changes Everything Dr. Masanao Kamata, quietly solved a problem that has existed since the laser's invention in 1960 If nobody in the optical industry noticed, well, they should have He spent years inside Sony's R&D Center in Atsugi working on a dilemma that seemed unsolvable: semiconductor lasers are compact and mass-producible but limited in power, while solid-state lasers achieve high output but resist miniaturization. He spun out of Sony Semiconductor Solutions to found SCALE Photonics - and brought the solution with him ❕️The chip is 1mm³ - roughly the size of a grain of salt. Peak output: 57kW. The world's first monolithic integration of semiconductor and solid-state laser materials on a single chip ⚫The Breakthrough This isn't incremental progress. For decades, engineers have been forced to choose between power and size Kamata's vertical integration of two optically coupled laser cavities - an InGaAs semiconductor pump and a solid-state Yb:YAG gain medium with passive Q-switching - eliminates that trade-off entirely The result is: ▪️Hundreds of times greater peak output than conventional chips of the same size, in pulses as short as 450 picoseconds ▪️Compact enough for a frame ▪️Powerful enough for everything below ⚫Five Doors This Opens for Eyewear ▪️Adaptive Optics on a Chip: Closed-loop wavefront correction - currently confined to research labs and surgical suites - could fit inside a consumer frame. Dr. Artal's autofocal platform just found its miniaturization engine ▪️Retinal Projection Display: Direct-to-retina image projection has been bottlenecked by laser power and size. A grain-of-salt chip at this output level projects high-resolution images onto the retina itself - not a screen in front of the eye ▪️On-Frame LiDAR: Real-time 3D spatial mapping from your glasses. The hardware constraint that kept LiDAR on cars and drones is now solved for wearables ▪️Therapeutic Photobiomodulation: Precise light wavelengths stimulating neural tissue - currently clinic-bound - become continuous and wearable. The implications for cognitive performance run deeper than vision correction ▪️Wearable OCT: The gold standard for retinal imaging requires coherent laser sources the size of a desk. This chip could migrate that diagnostic capability onto a frame - making oculomics continuous rather than episodic ⚫Honest Caveat The 57kW figure is peak pulsed output - nanosecond bursts, not continuous power. This is exactly what LiDAR, OCT and photobiomodulation require, but the path from Sony lab chip to consumer eyewear integration still demands significant engineering. This is a hardware unlock, not a finished product ❔Since the laser's invention in 1960, the power-vs-size dilemma has been the invisible ceiling above every smart eyewear roadmap. Dr. Kamata just removed it. The question isn't whether someone in the eyewear ecosystem will call him. It's who already has.  #AdaptiveOptics #SmartEyewear #Photonics #Oculomics #MedTech

I am excited to present our CLEO postdeadline paper tomorrow night: Dynamic Population Grating-Enabled Quantum-Dot Lasers with Wide Tuning and Narrow Linewidth 📍 Wed 20 May, 19:45–20:00, W207 In this work, we show how QDs can enable a tunable laser that is both simple to fabricate and strong in performance. Instead of relying on complex grating lithography or epitaxial regrowth, we use dynamic population gratings in QD lasers to provide self-aligned, mode-selective feedback. The laser achieves wide wavelength tuning, narrow linewidth, high side-mode suppression, and strong tolerance to optical reflection, supporting isolation-free operation for future photonic integrated circuits. I will also briefly connect this result with several recent works from our group: -In Optica, we demonstrated dynamic-population-grating-enabled mode control in QD lasers, achieving stable single-mode operation, wide tuning, narrow linewidth, and feedback-resilient performance. https://lnkd.in/eSdwFFMj -In Light: Science & Applications, we explored the feedback limits of QD lasers and provided design guidance for isolator-free photonic integrated circuits. https://lnkd.in/eT4WwrRK -In Nature Electronics, we demonstrated chaotic-VCSEL-based physical unclonable functions for dynamic authentication, combining ultrafast optical entropy generation with AI-assisted security. https://lnkd.in/e3gNbTkt -In Nature Communications, we reported integrated van der Waals MoS₂ waveguides for broadband, ultrafast all-optical nonlinear activation in photonic neural networks. https://lnkd.in/ecZ_qNX7 Together, these works reflect our broader effort at KAUST Integrated Photonics Lab to build scalable photonic platforms that connect on-chip light sources, nonlinear materials, and system-level applications in communications, sensing, computing, and security. Looking forward to seeing colleagues at CLEO and discussing how QDs can help enable simpler, more scalable, and isolation-free integrated photonic systems. #CLEO2026 #IntegratedPhotonics #QuantumDotLasers #SiliconPhotonics #PhotonicIntegratedCircuits #OnChipLasers #OpticalCommunications #LiDAR #PhotonicComputing #KAUST

“Terahertz sits at <1 % of the photonics market today, yet Optica’s May brief predicts a 40 % YoY growth once sub-100 µm resolution becomes routine.” That leap just got a catalyst: Nature Photonics reports that Fourier ptychography has pushed THz resolution down to 45 µm—nearly an order-of-magnitude sharper than conventional setups. Why does this matter for solar-glass coatings? • Non-destructive QC – Terahertz waves penetrate encapsulants and anti-reflective stacks without ionising damage. Sharper images mean we can finally spot nano-scale voids and delamination before a panel leaves the line. • Data-driven process tuning – High-resolution THz maps feed machine-learning models that adjust sputter parameters in real time, squeezing every last percent of photon throughput. • New coating chemistries – Seeing sub-wavelength features lets us validate metamaterial designs (think gradient-index films) without tearing apart a module. What’s being overlooked: most discussions frame Fourier ptychography as “another lab technique.” In reality, the hardware is simpler (single low-NA lens) and shifts complexity into software—exactly what inline inspection lines have space and budget for. The bottleneck isn’t optics; it’s the GPU on the factory floor. At AdaptiveWaves we’re prototyping a 0.5-m conveyor-width THz station that piggybacks on existing glass handling. Early tests caught sub-200 µm coating defects our optical scatterometers missed. Curious—are others seeing computational THz imaging creep into their production or research workflows? Where are the hiccups: acquisition speed, reconstruction algorithms, or just convincing procurement? #Photonics #DeepTech #Optics Book a 1:1 with me and lets collaborate on real innovation: https://lnkd.in/ep-VMzx6 You can also email me: nish@alum.mit.edu

The May issue of inVISION has been published and is available online. Topics covered in this issue include Sony’s new CMOS sensors for 100GigE vision applications (cover story), machine vision simulation and synthetic data, an interview with the new CEO of Stemmer Imaging, a special focus on 3D technology (ToF, cameras & sensors, applications, etc.), as well as post-event reports on LogiMAT-Messe and Image Sensors Conferences Europe. The contributors to this issue are: AT Sensors, Basler AG, Emergent Vision Technologies, Inc., European Machine Vision Association - EMVA, Fraunhofer ITWM, iba AG, ifm, InfraTec GmbH Infrarotsensorik und Messtechnik, JAI A/S, jumavis GmbH / LMI Technologies / Peak Metrology, LUCID Vision Labs, Inc., MBJ Imaging GmbH, MSTVision GmbH, MVTec Software GmbH, Optris, photonicSENS, PVA TePla AG, Rosenberger Group, Specim, Spectral Imaging Ltd., STMicroelectronics, STEMMER IMAGING, Vision Markets GmbH and wenglor sensoric group https://lnkd.in/dHSk3yRZ

📰 Learn more about STMicroelectronics newest VD1943 hybrid shutter image sensor and the latest news from Image Sensors Europe 2026 in the latest inVISION News edition! #ST #BrightSense #CIS #invision #machinevision

𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 The Diffractive Optical Elements Market is witnessing strong growth driven by increasing adoption of laser-based technologies, precision optics, and advanced photonics systems across industrial, medical, automotive, and consumer electronics sectors. Rising demand for high-performance optical components in imaging, beam shaping, optical communication, and semiconductor manufacturing is accelerating innovation and market expansion globally. Technological advancements in nanofabrication, holography, and micro-optics design are enhancing the efficiency and versatility of diffractive optical elements. Growing investments in LiDAR systems, AR/VR devices, biomedical imaging, and aerospace applications continue to create new growth opportunities while improving optical system performance and miniaturization. #DiffractiveOpticalElements #Photonics #LaserTechnology #OpticalEngineering #SemiconductorIndustry #LiDAR #ARVR #MedicalImaging #Optoelectronics #IndustrialAutomation #LaserSystems #PrecisionOptics #Nanotechnology #SmartManufacturing #AerospaceTechnology #OpticalCommunication #Innovation #TechIndustry #MarketGrowth #FutureTechnology ✅️𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: https://lnkd.in/dTxiMdhz 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞 – Holo ELECTROOP S.A., Defence & Civil Systems JENOPTIK AG Edmund Optics SUSS Hamamatsu Photonics Deutschland GmbH HORIBA Newport Corporation Thorlabs Topag Lasertechnik GmbH HOLOEYE Photonics AG Wasatch Photonics II-VI Incorporated ZEISS Group Nikon Olympus Corporation VIAVI Solutions Canonical Ophir Optics an MKS Brand Coherent Corp. TRUMPF IPG Photonics LightTrans International GmbH Shanghai Yudi Optics Fuzhou Photop Technologies Inc Headwall Digital Optics Dynasil Corporation of America LASER COMPONENTS SmarAct Inc. Excelitas Technologies Corp. TNO Optometrics mx Meopta s.r.o. PHOENIX OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED CASTECH AFRICA™ Nanoscribe Photronics AIXTRON SE Santec Corporation

Lasers started out as science fiction fantasy. From Buck Rogers laser pistols to Dr. Evil demanding “sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads,” pop culture imagined lasers as futuristic weapons. But every May 16, the International Day of Light celebrates the real breakthrough: the first working laser fired in 1960.   In Angie Kellen's latest blog, “Laser Beams (Without the Sharks) at the Core of Modern Chips,” she explores how lasers evolved from the pages of sci-fi comic books into one of the semiconductor industry’s most important enabling technologies.   Because while Dr. Evil wanted “frickin’ laser beams,” the semiconductor industry quietly built a world where lasers are everywhere, hidden in plain sight. https://lnkd.in/gXTKFxSj #Semiconductors #Photonics #Lasers #EUV #SiliconPhotonics #AdvancedPackaging #AIInfrastructure #ChipManufacturing #Lithography #SemiconductorIndustry