Welcome to PowerPhotonic’s December 2025 news bulletin covering:

• ‘Freeform optical solutions’ – our new company messaging.
• Special Recognition and International Reach Award nominations from Technology Scotland.
• NEW: LightForge Rapid Flat Top service enables the fast design of flat top beam optics
• NEW: Monolithic Fast-Axis Collimator Array (MFACA) and Phaseplate, smile corrector
• Callum Wreford was a guest presenter at the PHABULOuS online webinar
• Extending ISO 9001:2015 certification to include Optical Assemblies

‘Freeform optical solutions’ – our new company messaging.

PowerPhotonic will launch its new company messaging at Photonics West (Booth 5023) in January – please drop in at our booth to take a look.

The new messaging better reflects the company’s value proposition, operating at the forefront of the custom, precision optics and optical assembly design and manufacturing industry. Not only does the company supply components and assemblies worldwide, but it also provides solutions for challenging optical applications in a wide range of demanding markets. This is enabled by our proprietary, touch-free laser machining process, for freeform fused silica components. This lets us produce optical solutions with exceptionally low scatter, high CW or pulsed powers capabilities, optimised for operation across the UV-VIS-NIR spectrum. The company also enables customers to transition seamlessly from concept to prototype volumes through to full-scale production.

Special Recognition and International Reach Award nominations from Technology Scotland.

PowerPhotonic was pleased that Roy McBride, Director of Strategy and Growth, was a finalist in the Technology Scotland, Special Recognition Award 2025. This award was for individuals who have helped enable and shape the technology sector over the last 10 years. It was a real honour for Roy to be recognised for his enduring contribution and visionary leadership.

PowerPhotonic was also shortlisted for the Technology Scotland, International Reach Award, for organisations which made the most significant impact on the global stage. PowerPhotonic has a global customer base, spanning UK, Europe, North America and Asia, underpinned by world-class research and strong support from Scotland’s innovation ecosystem. The successful launch of the US facility in Arizona, further reinforced its global presence.

NEW: LightForge Rapid Flat Top service enables the fast design of flat top beam optics

PowerPhotonic has unveiled the LightForge™ – Rapid Flat Top Service, a groundbreaking new capability that enables engineers to design and fabricate custom flat top beam optics with unprecedented speed and efficiency. It brings an innovative, custom optics design and manufacturing capability directly to our customers, through a simple, online platform. It makes advanced beam shaping accessible to more engineers by automating key design steps and minimising engineering setup.

Rapid flat top beams enable a single optic to convert input beams, ranging from 1.5 mm to 6.5 mm, into a custom flat top output beam at the far-field focus, with options for circular, square, or rectangular spot shapes.

NEW: Monolithic Fast-Axis Collimator Array (MFACA) and Phaseplate, smile corrector

PowerPhotonic has launched its Monolithic Fast-Axis Collimator Array (MFACA) and Phaseplate Corrector for high power, high-density, laser diodes stacks. The MFACA enables the collimation of the laser diode stacks into a single element, monolithic array of fast axis optics.

Its key features include:

• Manufacture by proprietary, touch-free, laser machining ensuring high-brightness and minimal loss.
• Collimates arrays of 50 – 60 laser diode bars.
• Bar-to-bar pitches ranging from 1mm down to 350µm; the tightest pitch in the industry.
• Customised pitch matching.

PowerPhotonic can also wipe the smile off your MFACA!

A Phaseplate corrector, or ‘Smile Corrector’ corrects the wavefront of the MFACA from a curve to a flat line of optimal performance. This compensates for variance errors inherent in high-density, laser diode stacks, such as smile, spacing and tilt.

Callum Wreford was a guest presenter at the PHABULOuS online webinar

Callum Wreford, Head of Product Development at PowerPhotonic, was a guest presenter at PHABULOuS, with his webinar in the Micro-Optics in Optical Communication programme, entitled, “Revolutionising array fabrication – advanced technology in free form lens arrays”

As global data demand increases, the need for faster, more efficient optical communication grows. PowerPhotonic’s micro-optics deliver the compact, high-performance solutions needed for coupling, beam shaping, and signal integrity in fiber-optic and integrated photonic systems.

Extending ISO 9001:2015 certification to include Optical Assemblies

PowerPhotonic has successfully extended its ISO 9001:2015 certification to include the design and development of Optical Assemblies, across both its UK and USA sites; reinforcing its commitment to quality. This achievement demonstrates a structured and disciplined approach to quality management, risk mitigation, supply chain resilience, and continuous improvement. It assures customers, internationally, that we deliver high-performance and reliability in all of the design and development of precision laser optics design and opto-mechanical assemblies. It is a strategic milestone for the company as well as essential for our defence partners.

Contact PowerPhotonic online www.powerphotonic.com or sales@powerphotonic.com