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The coinciding conference, World of Photonics Congress, will be held in a digital format on the original dates of 20–24 June

Adding to an initial $5.7bn offer from Lumentum and a $6bn offer from MKS Instruments

The proposal comes just weeks after Coherent accepted a $5.7bn acquisition offer from Lumentum.

Coherent's photonics and lasers businesses will be combined with Lumentum's telecom, datacom, and 3D sensing businesses

The virtual event will include two digital exhibitions in addition to the conferences Lase, Bios, Opto and Quantum West

Together the societies support physical science researchers with the publication of more than 75,000 peer-reviewed journal articles each year

Nuburu’s total funding is now nearly $50 million, and will be used to accelerate the development of its high-brightness AI Series

Trumpf has completed the renaming and merger of its wholly-owned fibre laser manufacturing subsidiary SPI Lasers

The demand for laser systems in the microelectronics segment is expected to grow in 2020, however

Roo Engineering, which was started in April 2019, has grown from an initial three employees to a workforce of 27, and now operates across two sites