How femtosecond laser is enhancing automotive lighting design and manufacturing

How femtosecond laser is enhancing automotive lighting design and manufacturing

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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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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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XR for Helicopter Pilots

I want to talk more about complex use cases for professional, para-military and military market. Essentially this market has been using and developing XR technologies for decades, and this used to be a niche XR market. Now gaining more and wider spread through different fields of application, still XR products are well established mostly in defense and military applications, where the use cases are very clear and the value XR brings is undisputable. One of such application is XR for Helicopter
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