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14 Jan 2021 A round-up of this week's coronavirus-related news and countermeasures from the photonics industry. Digipredict digital twin is designed to predict the evolution of Covid-19.Under a cross-disciplinary program spearheaded by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, scientists from MESA+, Twente, The Netherlands, among others, are developing an AI-based system to predict whether Covid-19 patients will develop severe cardiovascular complications. In the longer term these systems could detect the likely onset of inflammatory disease. EPFL has launched a pan-European re...

Lockheed Martin delivers HELIOS laser system to US Navy 14 Jan 2021 US Navy has recently demonstrated above 60kW output power based on multiple kilowatt fiber lasers. Artist’s rendering of Lockheed Martin’s HELIOS system. This year, the U.S. Navy is scheduled to field the first acquisition program to deploy the High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS – a laser weapon system with high-energy fiber lasers intended for permanent fielding by the U.S. Department of Defense. This will be the only deployed laser system integrated into an operati...

Merger back on as Cisco and Acacia agree higher price 14 Jan 2021 Networking giant will now pay $4.5BN for the silicon photonics company, up from the $2.6BN agreed in 2019. Cisco and Acacia Communications have signed a new merger agreement valuing Acacia at $4.5 billion - a huge increase on the $2.6 billion deal agreed by the two firms back in July 2019. Earlier this month Acacia had attempted to terminate that original agreement - which would have seen Cisco pay $70 per share for the silicon photonics company - after it appeared that China’s State Administration for Market Regul...

Intel’s Mobileye outlines auto lidar plan 13 Jan 2021 The CEO of Mobileye - the Intel-owned computer vision specialist - has revealed plans to adopt new chip-scale lidar systems in future autonomous vehicle platforms. Amnon Shashua, who is also a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, outlined the idea during a keynote talk at the all-virtual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) event taking place this week. He confirmed that the company would be using lidar developed by Luminar Technologies for robotaxis in the near term - as the two firms had announced in November. But Shashua also ...

SPIE announces its 2021 society awards 13 Jan 2021 21 recipients represent achievements across wide range of light-based sciences and key advances made with these technologies. optics.org, has announced the recipients of its prestigious annual awards. Honoring transformative advancements in multiple areas — including medicine, astronomy, lithography, optical metrology, and community-focused achievements — the Society's awards recognize technical accomplishments as well as committed service to SPIE and support of its organizational mission. Categories and winners SPIE Gold Medal: ...