2026 Frikkin Lasers Contest: Steampunk, 360 O-Scope Does it with Tubes
2026 Frikkin Lasers Contest: Steampunk, 360 O-Scope Does it with Tubes
Early Bird Registration β EUROPHOTON 2026
Registration is open for this photonics conference on solid-state, fibre, and waveguide light sources. Join researchers and industry to explore advances in lasers and optics.
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21β25 Sept 2026, Arcachon
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We bring Fraunhofer HHI experts in hybrid photonic integration, silicon nitride platforms, and narrow linewidth lasers to ECIO 2026!
Meet our researchers: Klara Mihov, Csongor Keuer, Tianwen Qian to learn how we advance integration platforms and sensor technologies for smarter, faster, and more secure comms. π¬β¨
All details: https://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/en/events/ecio-2026.html ππ
#ECIO2026 #FraunhoferHHI #HybridIntegration #Sensing #Photonics #Lasers #CommunicationSystems
Slowly finding time to go over some cool shoots from last week.
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#Photography #CinematicPhotography #Atmospheric #LightAndShadow #Lasers #SXSWLondon
Weekend Reading from TechAptitude!
One of our most popular posts - LASERS in SPACE! :-)
U.S. Space Force is deploying space based optical/laser communications as the primary network/data transport layer for its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).
Check out the details here: https://techaptitude.substack.com/p/us-space-forces-laser-mesh-network #Space #DoD #PWSA #Lasers #OpticalNetworks #Communications #USSpaceForce #USSF #LasersinSpace #TechAptitude
UK Military getting into the Lasers in space game!
Britain is testing new high-speed infra-red laser based optical satellite links for its armed forces. The ground station, developed by UK firm Archangel Lightworks, is ~ a meter tall and 0.7 m in diameter and can transmit and receive data at up to 10 Gbps, and could in future scale to terabit-per-second (Tbps). https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/05/27/uk-armed-forces-aims-for-secure-comms-via-optical-satellite-links/5246994
The U.S. Space Force is actively deploying its all Optical Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) β a large, resilient, Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) mesh network of hundreds of satellites to provide low-latency communication and surveillance. See this post for more: https://techaptitude.substack.com/p/us-space-forces-laser-mesh-network #Space #Satellites #OpticalNetworking #Lasers #Archangel #Britain #BritishMilitary #Communications #Security #TerraM #InfraRed #UK