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…while Cognex reports on “difficult” Q3 performance and expects a flat outlook.

University of Groningen project combines two key functions in the same structure.

Cutting Edge Optronics (CEO), a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, appointed Scott Mize general manager. Mize previously held roles at CEO such as COO, director of engineering, and engineering programs manager. Prior to CEO, Mize worked as operations manager for MEMC Electronic Materials.

DÜSSELDORF, Germany — Fujifilm appointed Ralf Petersen as workflow and solution consultant, packaging, EMEA. Petersen will be based within the sales department, where he will be responsible for assessing customer workflow needs and managing the integration of end-to-end solutions. Prior to his appointment, Petersen worked in a workflow consultancy role at Landa Digital Printing.
Ralf Petersen. Courtesy of Fujifilm. SAN JOSE, Calif....

Deal to combine overlapping efforts, regarded as the first major merger in the lidar sector, should be completed by mid-2023.

A US research team tests out a system in which blue light replaces very high temperature and pressure to drive a key step in making an essential global material.

The board of directors of Optica elected 109 members from 24 countries to the society’s 2023 fellow class. Optica fellows are selected based on several factors, including outstanding contributions to business, education, research, and engineering, as well as service to Optica and the optics and photonics community.

The new fellows will be honored at Optica conferences and events throughout 2023.

A complete list of fellows is available at www.optica.org.

A smartphone-based system that relies on OCT to detect jaundice in newborns will be put to use diagnosing very young patients in the U.S. and Nigeria, thanks to a nearly $500,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH awarded the grant to the lab of Audrey Bowden, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, to test the usability of the system prototype, in the vicinity of Vanderbilt and in a clinical setting in Nigeria.

The basic concept of the device was presented by lab members earlier this year at SPIE Photonics West. The device is essentially a visible light OCT system with a single-mode fiber illumination source, using the camera of a commercial smartphone and...

Recent progress in the fabrication of nanostructures has led to their application in numerous fields, including materials engineering, environmental remediation, biomedicine, and more. In particular, nanostructure nanochannels with at least one physical dimension smaller than 100 nm are actively studied for their potential use in DNA stretching, nanofluidics, and artificial membranes.

For example, in traditional DNA testing methods based on polymerase chain reaction, a single mutated gene is easily treated as noise. Inside nanochannels with sub-100-nm diameter, the DNA molecule can be stretched along a line. As a result, it is possible to investigate the base pairs one-by-one along a single DNA, through which the single mutated gene...