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. ...

Appotronics, the inventor of ALPD® laser technology, today unveiled the world's first Laser+LCOS optical engine prototype for Augmented Reality (AR) glasses at the AR | VR | MR Exhibition of SPIE Photonics West 2026. This demonstration signifies the first successful convergence of laser display technology with the AR glasses form factor, establishing a critical milestone toward consumer-grade, all-day wearable AR devices. Held from January 20 to 22 in San Francisco, SPIE Photonics West is the premier global event for lasers, biomedical opt...

OPTIX will showcase its latest reflective AR waveguide and VR pancake optical technologies at SPIE Photonics West 2026, presenting a unified optics platform designed to address core XR hardware challenges including brightness, field of view, image clarity, and manufacturability. At Booth #6327, the company will debut its latest EPIC-50 reflective waveguide delivering up to 6,000 nits and a 50° field of view for next-generation AR glasses, alongside a compact, high-resolution VR pancake optical module engineered for premium headsets. OPTIX, a full-sta...

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...

Cree LED, a Penguin Solutions brand (Nasdaq: PENG), and Blizzard Lighting LLC (‘Blizzard’) today announced that they have reached a mutually beneficial settlement resolving a patent infringement dispute involving Cree LED’s patents related to LED components commonly used in LED displays. As part of the settlement, Cree LED has granted Blizzard a limited license to certain Cree LED patents covering LED components. Cree LED is firmly committed to protecting its intellectual property as part of its broader mission to drive innovat...

Sony Corporation ("Sony") and TCL Electronics Holdings Limited ("TCL") today announced that the two companies have agreed to move forward with discussions and consideration for a strategic partnership in the home entertainment field. Specifically, the two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to confirm their intentions to establish a joint venture that will assume Sony's home entertainment business, with TCL holding 51% and Sony holding 49% of its shares. The joint venture will operate globally, handling the full process from produ...

Vitrealab GmbH, a developer of Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for laser–LCoS-based AR light engines, announced today the successful closing of a Series A financing. With a volume of US$ 11 million, the round was significantly oversubscribed. The strong investor interest was driven by an industry-wide inflection in Augmented Reality and Vitrealab’s technology’s strong fit with the performance, efficiency and form-factor demands of next generation AR devices.The investment was led by LIFTT Italian Venture Capital and LIFTT EuroI...

ALLOS Semiconductors of Germany and Ennostar Corporation of Taiwan today announced a strategic partnership to bring 200 mm GaN-on-Si (gallium nitride on silicon) LED epiwafers for microLED applications into volume production. This collaboration represents a key milestone in establishing a silicon fab-compatible supply chain for microLED products. ALLOS Semiconductors and Ennostar announce strategic partnership for 200 mm GaN-on-Si epiwafers Through this partnership, ALLOS will be able to deliver its industry-leading GaN-on-Si epiwafers at the v...

ASCENDO, Barco Residential, StormAudio, PrimeTheater, and Technology Integration Partners (TIP) present the Luxury Immersion Cinema at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2026, stand 2J500, offering a new benchmark for residential theater design. As the popularity of LED video walls continues to grow in residential settings, this fully immersive, professional-grade demonstration reveals what’s possible when cinema-level video standards and uncompromising immersive audio are combined in a luxury home environment. DCI Video Sets the Visual Benchm...

Instrument Systems presents its new camera system LumiTop X30 AR and a broad range of advanced optical measurement solutions at SPIE AR|VR|MR 2026 and SPIE Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco, USA. At SPIE AR/VR/MR and Photonics West from 17–22 January 2026 in San Francisco, Instrument Systems will showcase its latest high-accuracy measurement systems in optical metrology. A key highlight will be the launch of the new LumiTop X30 AR – an advanced camera system for precise characterization of near-eye displays used in AR glas...

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...

Kopin Corporation, a leading provider of application-specific optical systems and high-performance microdisplays for defense, training, enterprise, industrial, consumer and medical products, today announced its participation in two premier industry conferences taking place in January 2026. Kopin will exhibit at SHOT Show 2026 and SPIE AR/VR/MR 2026, where the Company will highlight its latest innovations supporting customer applications. Kopin’s January industry conference schedule reflects the Company’s continued focus on high-value, high-performance di...

Kopin Corporation, a leading provider of application-specific optical systems and high-performance microdisplays for defense and enterprise use, today announced a key milestone in bringing its DarkWAVE™ Module to market, with the first product order for the platform. Theon International (AMS: THEON), a global leader in night-vision and thermal imaging systems, and a strategic partner to Kopin, has placed a $1 million development order to bring the 960p DarkWAVE module to “production readiness” in 2026, marking the transition of the technology from pr...

Across live entertainment, virtual production, DOOH, sports and corporate & commercial environments, Absen is increasingly selected for projects where scale, technical precision and operational reliability are non-negotiable. From national cultural celebrations and global music festivals to cutting-edge virtual production facilities and international sporting events, these benchmark projects reflect Absen’s proven ability to support complex creative ambitions with stable, high-performance LED display solutions—delivered consistently across markets and applicatio...

The Fighting Illini turned to Daktronics (NASDAQ-DAKT) of Brookings, South Dakota, to design, manufacture and install the largest main video display in college football, totaling 17,300+ square feet. The project includes 16 LED displays that combine for more than 26,750 square feet and 30 million pixels at Gies Memorial Stadium on campus at the University of Illinois in Champaign. The project will be completed ahead of the 2026 college football season. “We are excited to partner with Daktronics to bring the largest videoboard in college football to G...

From January 20th to 22nd, Nichia will exhibit at Photonics West in San Francisco, CA. Photonics West is the largest international conference and exhibition of optical technology in North America. Leaders from academia, industry, and government will gather to discuss the latest research in areas such as biomedical optics, biophotonics, industrial lasers, optoelectronics, microfabrication, MOEMS-MEMS, displays, and quantum technologies. Nichia will present its wide-ranging portfolio of industrial laser diodes, including advanced solutions developed for high reliabil...

Since January 1, 2026, drivers in Spain have been required to carry certified V16 warning lights on expressways and highways, which are directly connected to the traffic authorities when in use. With the LEDguardian ROAD FLARE Signal V16 IoT, ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS) offers a powerful solu-tion with a light range of up to 1,000 meters – for even greater visibility and protection, di-rectly from the car. In Germany, people who have broken down or been involved in an acci-dent can draw even more attention to themselves with approved warning lights such as...

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...

Cree LED, a Penguin Solutions brand, today announced its new Level 2 (L2) Solutions portfolio, offering both standard and custom fully-populated LED PC board assemblies (PCBAs). The new lineup gives lighting manufacturers a streamlined way to source LEDs and assembled boards from a single, trusted supplier. “We continue to hear from top-tier suppliers committed to the lighting market long-term that they need a complete L2 solution," said Joe Clark, president of Cree LED. "The time is right to introduce this new portfolio. Our decades of L...

Nichia, the world's largest LED/Laser Diode manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LEDs, is pleased to announce the full-scale launch of its “Mercury-Free Project,” an initiative to replace mercury lamps used within Nichia with LED technology. This project is based on the concept of “sustainable manufacturing” and aims to replace all mercury lamps used on Nichia's production lines with LEDs by 2030. To achieve this goal, Nichia will install devices using LEDs and accelerate the development of technologies n...

At CES® 2026, LG Electronics didn’t just talk about AI – we showed what it looks like when it’s woven into everyday life. Under the theme “Innovation in tune with you,” our exhibit unfolded as a set of connected environments spanning the home, mobility and entertainment. Together, they showed how our Affectionate Intelligence senses what’s happening, understands context and responds in ways that feel natural and helpful. Instead of treating AI as something locked inside devices, we focused on how it moves across spaces. Kitch...

Across the industrial and medical sectors, engineers and product leaders face the same persistent dilemma: how to deliver smarter, more feature-rich sensing in space- and power-constrained designs, while meeting stringent lifetime, reliability, and safety requirements? For years, the answer meant trading performance for convenience, often relying on generic chips that limited product differentiation. At ams OSRAM, these trade-offs are a thing of the past. Customization – true ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) and system-level adaptation – is redefi...

Any gamer can benefit from extra display space, but not everyone has the physical space to make it happen — especially if they’re gaming on the go. With the ROG XREAL R1 gaming glasses, these concerns become a thing of the past. Just put these glasses on and you’ll see the gaming display of your dreams. Whether you need a big-screen virtual display for on-the-go ROG Xbox Ally gaming or want an extra monitor for your battlestation that takes up no space, the ROG XREAL R1 Glasses are the solution. These gaming glasses give you a featherweigh...

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...

(From Left) Ph.D candidate Minjae Kim, Professor Seunghyup Yoo, Dr. Junho Kim Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are widely used in smartphones and TVs thanks to their excellent color reproduction and thin, flexible planar structure. However, internal light loss has limited further improvements in brightness. KAIST researchers have now developed a technology that more than doubles OLED light-emission efficiency while maintaining the flat structure that is a key advantage of OLED displays. KAIST (President Kwang Hyung Lee) announced on the 1...

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. is introducing its latest displays, mobile technologies and partnerships for the retail market at NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show (Booth #5303). Samsung will demonstrate how its connected ecosystem and strategic collaborations elevate in-store experiences for customers and employees. “In 2026, successful retailers will need to focus beyond price to stay prominent among consumers,” said David Phelps, Head of Display, Samsung Electronics America. “According to Deloitte’s 2026 Retail Industry Global Outlo...

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. has developed an LED lamp unit that projects moving patterned light in vehicle interiors. This product is used on the Lexus RZ1 battery electric vehicle from Toyota Motor. To enhance vehicle interiors, in recent years there has been rising demand for illumination connected to music or sensors such as approach notification. To meet such needs, Toyoda Gosei has leveraged its original optical engineering technology in developing illumination that incorporates delicate pattern plates into LED lamps and projects vivid light images in vehicle interi...

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...

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of AI-powered smart glasses, waveguides and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies, and Himax Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display drivers and other semiconductor products, today announced a new Optical Component Reference Design for AR glasses. The design combines Himax's ultra-compact HX7319FL color sequential Front-lit LCoS microdisplay with Vuzix' high-efficiency waveguide technology together to enable lightweight AR glasses that support prescription lenses, while achieving...