Redefining Automotive Lighting: Insights from CUPRA’s Raval Project

Redefining Automotive Lighting: Insights from CUPRA’s Raval Project

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Redefining Automotive Lighting: Insights from CUPRA’s Raval Project

Automotive lighting is undergoing a transformation — from functional components to emotional and identity-defining elements. With the launch of the new CUPRA Raval, this evolution becomes tangible: advanced micro-optics, precise light control and a distinctive visual signature converge into a new generation of design.
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How femtosecond laser is enhancing automotive lighting design and manufacturing

In recent years, there has been a clear trend towards miniaturization in the industry. Why? Because smaller means lighter, more efficient, more compact, and more sustainable. However, miniaturization comes with a major challenge: manufacturing precision at microscopic scales in a cost-effective way that ensures feasibility for large-scale production.
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Lightmatch: Bridging the optical gap between mock-up and production in automotive lighting

By integrating optical functionality directly into injection moulded surfaces, engineers can achieve lighter architectures, improved efficiency, and reduced system complexity — all critical factors in today’s landscape. However, this shift towards micro-structured optics introduces a rarely discussed but highly impactful problem across the development chain: The optical behaviour of your prototype may have some diferences from your final injected part.
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Presentations

PlanOpSim to Present Invited Paper, co-authored with Thales, at SPIE Photonics Europe 2026

PlanOpSim is excited to announce that its CEO Lieven Penninck will present an Invited Paper, co-authored with Thales Research and Technology’ Sébastien Héron, at the upcoming SPIE Photonics Europe 2026 conference, taking place in Strasbourg, France. The presentation is scheduled for 2025-04-16 and will highlight the benefits of the co-optimization of metaoptics and refractive optics in infrared optical design.
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PowerPhotonic will showcase its fused silica, freeform optical components, assemblies and design tools at SPIE Photonics West 2026.

PowerPhotonic, US and UK designer and manufacturer of precision, freeform, fused silica laser optics, will exhibit at SPIE Photonics West, Booth #5023. The company will showcase innovations in optical components; advanced optical assemblies; and design enablement tools for use in laser beam combining, collimation, shaping and correction, for high-coherent-power applications.
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Developing tomorrow’s laser processes: insights from the LASEA x CEIT webinar

The development of new laser processes never happens in isolation. It relies on close collaboration between research centres, engineers and industrial players, capable of bridging the gap between theory and real-world constraints. With this approach in mind, LASEA organised a webinar in collaboration with CEIT Centro Tecnológico, focusing on a real case study of laser micromachining applied to complex industrial challenges. This exchange highlighted a key element of LASEA’s positioning, the abi
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