About Holography & Optical Technology News
Optical Security —
Beyond Holography
The industry's leading intelligence platform for holographic and optical security — covering breakthrough research and the commercial applications that drive business results.
Holography & Optical Technology News™ (HOTN) is the industry's leading intelligence platform for holography and advanced optical technologies, providing in-depth market analysis and insight into their development and applications, with a particular focus on authentication and security.
Since 1990, the publication has evolved alongside the industry, tracking key technologies, markets and applications as they develop. Today its coverage extends well beyond conventional holography to encompass micro-optics, nano-optics, plasmonics, advanced optical effects and digital-optical integration. While security and authentication remain at the heart of HOTN's coverage, it also follows the use of these technologies in commercial and decorative applications, packaging and product enhancement, displays, visualisation, and emerging virtual and augmented reality applications.
Holography & Optical Technology News sponsors the International Optical Technologies Association Excellence in Optical Technologies Awards, presented annually at the Optical & Digital Document Security™ conference.
HOTN is published monthly as a 12-page specialist newsletter, with supporting weekly news alerts and a searchable archive on its website.
What Holography & Optical Technology News Covers
Design & Production
New techniques, equipment and services for the design, production, finishing and application of holographic and optical technologies
Materials & Components
New materials, substrates, coatings, films and components for optical technologies and their applications
Optical Technologies
Developments in holography, micro- and nano-optics, plasmonics, diffractive and other advanced optical technologies
Security & Authentication
Optical technologies for document and product protection, authentication, identification, anticounterfeiting and brand protection
Commercial & Decorative Applications
Holographic and optical effects for packaging, brand enhancement, decoration, product differentiation and other commercial applications
Displays, AR & VR
Optical technologies for displays, visualisation, augmented reality and virtual reality
Patents & Intellectual Property
Patent filings, licensing and other intellectual property developments affecting the sector
Markets, Projects & Case Studies
New applications, contracts, deployments and case studies across security and commercial markets
Trends & Market Analysis
Analysis of regional, sectoral and technology trends shaping the future of the industry
Companies & Industry
Investments, partnerships, alliances, acquisitions, financial performance and other corporate developments, including Stockwatch
Who Should Read Holography & Optical Technology News
Your Subscription Includes
12 issues/year
Searchable articles on website
Weekly news updates
Editorial Team
Editor
Chander S Jeena
Regional Director of Reconnaissance International, based in New Delhi, India, and General Secretary of the International Optical Technologies Association. Chander leads the editorial direction of Holography & Optical Technology News.
Contributors
Francis Tuffy
Consultant, Optical & Authentication Technologies at Reconnaissance International, and Editor of HOTN’s sister publication ID & Secure Document News™.
Astrid Mitchell
Chief Executive of Reconnaissance International with more than 40 years’ experience in the security printing, authentication and secure document industries. Astrid is also Editor of HOTN’s sister publication Currency News™.
Editorial Policy
Holography & Optical Technology News is totally impartial and does not favour any organisation, technology or region.
Quality, accuracy and editorial integrity are paramount and all information is fully checked before publication.
Holography & Optical Technology News welcomes input from individual organisations, but on the understanding that material is only considered for inclusion if it is without bias, accurate and relevant to the readership.
Holography & Optical Technology News aims to support the development of the holography and optical technology industry by fostering communications and providing information. The editor acknowledges the importance of discretion and, in seeking to advance the interests of the community, does not publish articles which could be damaging to any organisation or individual unless this information is already in the public domain or it is in the wider interests of the holography and optical technology community to do so.
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