New York Photonics congratulates the 2018 SPIE Fellow designees. We in the industry know how much that signifies: to be nominated and recognized by your peers as the best of the best in your field. Thank you for your amazing work in optics, photonics and imaging. Your technical contributions make life better for all mankind!...Continue Reading

Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY, is seeking a new optics professor to support its growing Optical Systems Technology Program.  This program is the only program of its kind in the nation with full enrollment and a support community that includes seven high schools teaching dual-credit optics and an advisory board of industry leaders. This is...Continue Reading

ARIZONA PHOTONICS DAYS – 24/27 January 2018 – Tucson, Arizona Presented by Optics Valley in partnership with UA Tech Parks and the Global Photonics Alliance. Join us as the Optics Valley Committee of the Arizona Technology Council hosts our Global Photonics Alliance partners for two days of technical discussions and business-to-business meetings: Connect and Network...Continue Reading

Luminate, the largest Optics, Photonics and Imaging (OPI) start-up accelerator program in the nation hosted its first ever competition in Rochester this week, nearly twenty years after New York Photonics began its statewide advocacy mission for the industry.  It was a really good event, and this is only year one. OPI was recognized in 2014...Continue Reading

Toptica Photonics (Farmington, NY) has opened its new U.S corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility, including new clean room facilities and laboratories. The expansion allows Toptica to continue meeting customers’ needs with photonics and laser applications as well as supporting applications in the company’s growing quantum technologies, biophotonics, and materials markets. Mark Tolbert, CEO of Toptica...Continue Reading

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Digital Rochester is partnering with the Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster for an event designed for the non-photonics professional.  We will improve your understanding of the photonics industry, as well as some exciting updates on the recent wins in our area.  We’ve put together a panel of industry experts to give you a basic understanding of...Continue Reading

RPC Photonics today announced a large-volume order for Engineered Diffusers™ for a VCSEL-based, Time-of-Flight (ToF) 3D Sensing application from a Fortune 50 company.  RPC Photonics’ Engineered Diffusers™ provides uniform illumination with high efficiency in a custom-designed solution. G. Michael Morris, founder and CEO of RPC Photonics said “Our customers come to us for solutions to...Continue Reading

Professor Robert L. McCrory, a physicist and scientific leader who has shepherded the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics to international prominence during the past 35 years, will retire from the directorship on October 1, the beginning of the federal government’s fiscal year. McCrory, who holds the title of University Professor—one of just eight...Continue Reading

Jaime Cardenas, University of Rochester Tuesday, Oct 3 at 7:00 PM Laboratory for Laser Energetics – East Lobby 240 East River Road, Rochester, NY 14623 Abstract: Integrated photonics, or optics on a chip, offers solutions to many of the challenges common to traditional optics such as element alignment, stability, and size. On-chip photonic devices are...Continue Reading