Vertilite is excited to participate in two upcoming U.S. events in January 2026—CES in Las Vegas from January 6–9, and SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco from January 20–22. At CES, you can find our team at Booth 6853, where we will be exhibiting with our partners and showcasing our VCSEL technology for automotive applications. At SPIE Photonics West, you can find our team at Booth 2549, where we will showcase VCSEL-based solutions for a variety of applications, including consumer, datacom, automotive, and medical. In ad...

Pupil Labs, a global leader in wearable eye tracking technology, today announced a partnership with NIL Technology (NILT) to integrate NILT’s ultra-compact metaEye™ technology into Pupil Labs’ forthcoming eye tracking product. The collaboration brings together NILT’s cutting-edge meta-optics camera modules and Pupil Labs’ artificial intelligence-based eye tracking pipeline – NeonNet. At the core of the partnership are NILT’s metaEye™ cameras measuring just 1.6 × 1.6 × 2.0 mm, enabling unpreceden...

In 2026, LASER COMPONENTS will celebrate its 40th anniversary in optical coating. The company is known worldwide in the laser industry for its high-performance optical components with customized coatings. These components ensure the stability and efficiency of all laser processes and are indispensable in medicine, defense, aerospace, and laser material processing. LASER COMPONENTS manufactures laser optics in any quantity, from prototypes to series production. Increasing laser power in industry demands complex optics with high reflectivity and laser da...

Lightera, a leading innovator and manufacturer of advanced fiber optic solutions, will demonstrate its technical expertise and industry leadership through a series of technical presentations and live product demonstrations at SPIE Photonics West and BiOS 2026. The event will take place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, from January 17 through January 22, 2026, with the BiOS Expo running January 17–18. With six technical conference presentations and three live product demonstrations, Lightera research scientists and technical experts will hi...

With 10 years of experience as a Sales Manager at Marubeni, I can honestly say that Photonics West was one of the most thrilling events I’ve had the opportunity to be a part of. It wasn’t just about showcasing our wide wavelength range LEDs, stretching from 365nm to 1900nm—it was about seeing how our technology could be used in ways that really impact industries around the world. The chance to connect with so many different customers, each with unique needs and visions, was invaluable. The buzz around our small EDP packages with SWIR flip chips for w...

EPIGAP OSA was proud to participate once again in the German Pavilion at Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco. Together with more than 60 other German companies, we showcased our latest products and solutions to an international audience and strengthened our presence in the US market. Photonics West remains the key global meeting point for the photonics community, bringing together industry, research, and innovation at an exceptional scale. We were delighted to reconnect with long-standing partners and to establish many exciting new contacts throughout the event. ...

WHO: Excelitas®, a leading provider of advanced, life-enriching technologies that make a difference, serving global market leaders in the life sciences, advanced industrial, next-generation semiconductor and avionics sectors, will highlight its high-performance photonics innovations at SPIE BiOS Expo and Photonics West. Company experts will also present four sessions at Photonics West. WHAT: Featured technologies at BiOS Booth #8531 and Photonics West Booth #637: Instant Co-Localization for Dual-Fluorescence Emission Demo highlighting high-reso...

Coherent Corp., a global leader in photonics, announced today that it will showcase its broad portfolio of products and innovations at SPIE Photonics West, taking place January 20-22, 2026. At the event, Coherent will highlight the depth and breadth of its photonics portfolio, spanning from CW to ultrafast lasers, beam delivery, advanced materials and thermal management solutions. Together, these capabilities enable next-generation innovations across AI datacenters, semiconductor and display capital equipment, life sciences, scientific research, precision manufacturing, and e...

Lumentum Holdings Inc. (“Lumentum”), a market-leading designer and manufacturer of optical and photonic products, announced today its participation in SPIE Photonics West 2026, where it will showcase high-power ultrafast, UV, and 3D sensing laser solutions designed to meet the growing precision, throughput, and reliability demands of advanced manufacturing and sensing applications. Attendees are invited to visit Lumentum booth #2343 at the San Francisco Moscone Center from January 20-22, where the company will demonstrate how its latest laser and photonic i...

The design of consumer products has for years been moving towards an ever sleeker and smoother aesthetic. The mobile phone has led the trend – manufacturers first thinned the bezel, then got rid of it entirely, so that all that can be seen on the front of a premium smartphone is the display. Now the principle of smooth and sleek design has the next target in its sights: the push-buttons on the edge of the enclosure which power a device on and off, and provide basic user inputs such as volume controls. The end point of this trend is the creation of a completely smooth exterior, w...

Sumitomo Chemical will participate in SPIE Photonics West 2026, the world’s largest optics and photonics conference and exhibition, to be held in San Francisco, California, the United States, from Tuesday, January 20 to Thursday, January 22, 2026. This conference, organized by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), the leading society in this field, showcases a wide range of the latest optical and photonic technologies and applications, including optical communications, lasers, and optoelectronic devices. Sumitomo Chemical offers compo...

PlayNitride, a global leader in MicroLED technologies, today announced a strategic collaboration with Brillink to develop a next-generation array-based photonic interconnect solution designed to deliver longer reach, lower power consumption, and superior bandwidth density for high-performance computing (HPC)and AI systems. As one of the industry's foremost MicroLED innovators, PlayNitride will contribute its high-efficiency green MicroLED emitters, enables longer reach, lower power consumption, and more stable performance compared to blue MicroLED emitters&m...

Innoviz Technologies Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance LiDAR solutions, announced today the integration of its InnovizSMARTer LiDAR with NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano. The new solution delivers a complete far edge solution for real-time 3D perception, enabling wireless deployment of LiDAR sensors in bandwidth-constrained environments while significantly reducing the centralized processing cost. The integration with NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano addresses a major barrier in smart infrastructure. High-performing LiDAR sensors generate gigabits...

Innoviz Technologies Ltd., a leading Tier-1 direct supplier of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensor platforms and complementary software stacks, announced today a partnership with Vueron Technology Co. Ltd., a leader in AI-powered LiDAR perception solutions. Through this collaboration, Innoviz LiDAR data from InnovizTwo and InnovizSMART is now integrated into Vueron's VueX AI development platform, enabling automotive manufacturers and smart infrastructure operators to accelerate their perception development through automated data annotation...

AEye, Inc., a global leader in software-defined lidar solutions, today announced the integration of its long-range Apollo lidar with the NVIDIA AGX DRIVE Thor™ automotive computing platform, to enable high-performance sensing and perception for next-generation physical AI systems. The integration combines AEye’s long-range, software-defined Apollo lidar with NVIDIA’s Thor centralized AI compute, delivering a scalable architecture for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous vehicles, and intelligent mobility applications...

Ganzin, a pioneer in glint-free wearable eye-tracking technology, is excited to announce the global debut of its next-generation AURORA IIE eye-tracking solution at CES 2026. Building on the success of last year's AURORA IIS NPU solution, AURORA IIE introduces a custom-designed ASIC processor--Eye Processing Unit 2 (EPU2)--dedicated solely to eye-tracking computation. For years, the high computational power required for eye-tracking has prevented AR/AI glasses from integrating this feature in a truly power-efficient manner. While A...

ams OSRAM, a global leader in innovative light and sensor solutions, will showcase how its latest solutions are powering game-changing applications in nearly every industry at CES 2026 in an invite-only meeting room at the Venetian Expo. Top experts and company executives will share technical insight into the latest lighting and sensing products, discuss current industry trends and address strategies for future growth. “Our continued CES presence demonstrates our commitment to innovation and our position as a trusted lighting and sensing leader,” said Conrad R...

Innoviz Technologies Ltd. (the "Company" or "Innoviz"), a leading Tier-1 direct supplier of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensor platforms and complementary software stacks, launched today the Company's latest development: the InnovizThree LiDAR. InnovizThree was designed with slimmer dimensions and lower power consumption, all while delivering exceptionally high-performance at a dramatically reduced price compared to InnovizTwo. The newly slimmed-down design allows InnovizThree to be seamlessly integrated behind the windshield or on...

According to the report “TrendForce 2026 Infrared Sensing Application Market and Branding Strategies,” driven by brands’ strategic planning, five key themes are projected to unfold steadily between 2026 and 2030: 1) consumer electronics, including under-display 3D sensing, under-display proximity sensors, and bio-sensing; 2) smart cockpit / ADAS- driver / occupant monitoring systems (DMS/OMS); 3) automotive automation- autonomous driving; 4) industrial automation and humanoid robots; and 5) optical communication. Various factors are helping to expand th...

The emergence of AI powered smart glasses as the next platform for personal computing has been driven by separate but complementary innovations. First, tech product manufacturers have teamed up with manufacturers of spectacles and sunglasses to make products which look attractive and fashionable, and which are comfortable to wear.  The second innovation is the development of AI agents that are rapidly improving their ability to engage in natural-language interactions with users, and to operate intelligently in the context of the user’s life (for instance, understand...

A noninvasive method for measuring blood glucose levels, developed at MIT, could save diabetes patients from having to prick their fingers several times a day. The MIT team used Raman spectroscopy — a technique that reveals the chemical composition of tissues by shining near-infrared or visible light on them — to develop a shoebox-sized device that can measure blood glucose levels without any needles. In tests in a healthy volunteer, the researchers found that the measurements from their device were similar to those obtained by commercial continuous glucose mon...

At CES 2026, trinamiX GmbH and AUMOVIO will demonstrate a groundbreaking, non-invasive blood alcohol measurement solution for private and commercial vehicles. Designed to enhance road safety and address growing regulatory demand for innovative driver-monitoring systems, this state-of-the-art technology enables precise, real-time measurement of blood alcohol concentration by touching a sensor with the fingertip. Live demonstrations will take place at trinamiX booth #4565 at LVCC West Hall. This cutting-edge approach utilizes invisible near-infrared light that inte...

Innoviz Technologies Ltd., a leading Tier-1 direct supplier of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensor platforms and complementary software stack, announced today that Daimler Truck, one of the world's leading commercial vehicle manufacturers and Torc Robotics, a subsidiary of Daimler Truck, have selected Innoviz as its Short-Range LiDAR supplier for series production SAE Level 4 autonomous Class 8 semi-trucks. This announcement follows Innoviz's previous disclosure that a major commercial vehicle OEM had selected the Company for future se...

A VTT led research project is developing compact spectral imaging and gas measurement technologies for industries and medical diagnostics. Innovations based on the science of light, i.e. photonics, use, for instance, infrared light to identify gases. With the new optical MEMS solutions, instruments and sensors are easier and cheaper to manufacture from readily available and non-toxic raw materials. The EPheS (Efficient Photonics for Sustainable Imaging and Sensing) project, involving four pioneering companies and two research institutes, is developing tunable optical sp...

CHASING INNOVATION TECH CO., LTD., a global leader and innovator in underwater robotics, today introduced the CHASING L1 Ultra — a first-of-its-kind pool-cleaning system designed to redefine pool maintenance through the integration of 360° LiDAR mapping and AI Vision. More than a cleaner, the L1 Ultra represents the pinnacle of CHASING’s innovation — a fully autonomous, AI-powered system that sees, thinks, and acts with precision, transforming pool care into an effortless experience of perfection. ...

The way we interact with digital worlds is evolving rapidly, driven by the pursuit of ever more immersive, secure, and sustainable experiences. The latest advances in miniaturization, efficiency, and seamless integration with AR/VR solutions and smart glasses are opening up entirely new possibilities for both manufacturers and users. With the introduction of the new generation of FIREFLY™ IREDs SFH 4030B and SFH 4060B, ams OSRAM is setting new standards for infrared LEDs in these AR and VR applications. In today’s rapidly evolving tech...

GlobalFoundries (GF) today announced the acquisition of Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF), a silicon photonics foundry based in Singapore, marking a pivotal step in GF’s strategy to advance innovation and its leadership in silicon photonics. This acquisition will expand GF’s silicon photonics technology portfolio, production capacity and research and development in Singapore, complementing its existing technology capabilities in the U.S. and unlocking new market opportunities with a broader set of datacenter and communication technologies. GF’s acquisitio...

CEA-Leti is launching a multilateral program on microLED technology for ultra-fast data transfer, with a particular focus on accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) growth. The lab- to-fab initiative draws on the institute's deep expertise in microLED process technology. The three-year initiative was announced today at SEMICON Europa in Munich. Set to begin in January 2026, it aims to engage manufacturers of microLEDs, optical fibers, photodiodes, and interconnects, as well as chipmakers, system integrators, and hyperscalers. “Over the past deca...

Executives from LG Electronics, LG Display, LG Energy Solution and LG Innotek met with Mercedes-Benz AG to discuss expanded collaboration under LG’s “One LG Solution” strategy. Focused on leveraging the combined expertise of LG Group affiliates, this effort brings together the four companies driving the Group’s automotive components business. The meeting took place on November 13 at LG Twin Towers in Yeouido, Seoul, during the visit of Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Management and CEO of Mercedes-Benz ...

Hesai Technology, the global leader in lidar solutions, announced today that it has been selected by Li Auto to supply lidars for all models in its next-generation assisted driving platform. This includes the “L” Series, “i” Series, and “MEGA”. Hesai will continue to provide advanced perception technologies for Li Auto as the exclusive lidar supplier. Li Auto is a leading new‑energy vehicle manufacturer that designs, develops, manufactures, and sells premium smart electric vehicles, with over 1.46 million vehicles delivered as of Octo...