Scientists from the Department of Optics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, have introduced a new microscopy technique that changes the rules of the game in cell imaging. It will enable fast, contactless and non-invasive analysis of cells with high resolution. The results were published in the prestigious scientific journal Optica. [...]
EU Invests €15M to Help Companies Supercharge Their Products with Light. Building on successes to date, a new PhotonHub framework has been launched to fund photonics innovation projects until December 2028 through a pan-European network of partners which includes HiLASE Centre. […]
Meopta, a Czech manufacturer of precision optics, will provide the entire production and testing of the complete UTAAS system, SAABs’ unique fire control technology for CV90 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) for the armies of the Slovakia, Czech Republic, Sweden and Denmark. […]
On 2nd April 2025, breakthrough technological proposals in space transportation were celebrated at ESA’s FIRST! Awards Ceremony in Paris, attended by the CEO for Space, Ing. Petr Suchánek. The submitted proposal was on the topic of Engine Electrification, Sensors and Intelligence. […]
The meeting took place at the BIOCEV centre in Vestec, where the LasApp project was first introduced by Pavel Peterka from the Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS (ÚFE) who is the main coordinator of the project. […]
In the Czech Republic, EVPÚ Defence a.s. specializes in the development, production and service of electro-optical systems for security and defence applications, focusing on the creation of modular solutions that can be maximally adapted to the specific requirements of the customer and the specific tasks to be performed by the [...]
High-tech, high value-added products. This is what the upcoming acquisition of Meopta in Přerov is supposed to be in a nutshell. The global optics manufacturer will invest more than CZK 700 million in an operation focused on high-precision machining of components for the semiconductor industry and super-clean production of optical [...]
Jan Vymazal became the new CEO of Meopta, which manufactures optical products for industrial, military and consumer use in Přerov, on 1 February 2025. He replaces Alena Moore, who has been CEO of Meopta since July 2020. […]
A European research team from Germany, the Czech Republic and Belgium, with the involvement of the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS, v.v.i. (ISI), is developing an innovative imaging technology that will enable high precision visualization of neural processes in living organisms. The NEUROGATE project is working on a [...]
The industrial complex in Turnov is home to the technology company Crytur – a manufacturer of artificial crystals that are essential for the global production of chips and laser rods or in experiments in particle physics. And also the Company of the Year according to the Hospodářské noviny award for [...]