A team of runners from Arden took part in the popular Knowle Fun Run. The Knowle Fun Run is a major event on the local calendar with over 1200 people taking on the 5 mile course through the village.

This month we were pleased to support our Chinese distributor Linpu Instruments at the CIOE trade fair in Shenzhen, China. On the Linpu booth we featured the MPX Encircled Flux meter,

This month we completed the purchase of Royston House, the building which Arden Photonics has occupied for the last 5 years. This gives us room for expansion, removes some uncertainy about the future and gives us more flexibility to configure our work-space to meet not only increased order levels but different product mix.

We had a visit from Lorely Burt, our local Member of Parliament, this month. During the visit she learned about some of the processes which we undertake on a routine basis such as UPC and APC connector polishing.

In an exciting new £600,000 project funded by the Technology Strategy Board, Arden Photonics has teamed up with Branscan Ltd, Aston University and Warburtons Bakery, to use innovative photonic technology to develop a sensing solution for characterising and inspecting food products.

Arden Photonics, represented by David Robinson, was pleased to take part in the Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications. The event was hosted by ACREO, and organised by ACREO in conjunction with the OSA.

We are pleased to announce the release of the OCT phantom.. The APL-OP01 Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) phantom is a device to qualitatively and quantitatively characterize the performance of an OCT system,

We are pleased to announce the release of the ALS LED Light Source with 85/85% launch conditions. Aimed at companies working within or supplying to the European aircraft industry,

Arden took part in the annual ECOC exhibition in Amsterdam this month. We took the opportunity to meet with customers, sales partners and business associates from Europe and around the world.

This month it is our pleasure to welcome Richard Penzer to the Arden team. Richard joined us at the beginning of July after completing an honours degree in geology at the University of Birmingham,

OptoScience Inc, Arden Photonics’ distributor in Japan, had one of the largest ( if not the largest ) booth at the recent LaserExpo show in Yokohama, Japan. The MPX-1, Modcon and the VFI-1200 were shown on the booth,