Wyse Light is proud to announce that it has been selected as a finalist for the Electro Optics Photonics Frontiers Award 2026, in the “Industrial Imaging” category, for its project: “Bringing nanometre surface metrology to the shopfloor”.
This recognition marks an important milestone for Wyse Light and validates our mission: making high-accuracy optical metrology simpler, faster, and more accessible to industrial companies, research laboratories, and precision optics manufacturers.
International recognition for shopfloor-ready metrology
The Photonics Frontiers Award celebrates applied photonics projects with real-world impact. The 2026 shortlist brings together innovative companies and research teams across fields including biophotonics, quantum technologies, industrial lasers, optical communications, aerospace, and metrology.
Being shortlisted in the Industrial Imaging category is a strong recognition of Wyse Light’s approach: developing an optical metrology solution designed not only for laboratory performance, but also for practical industrial use.Raymaster 10: nanometre-accuracy measurement of reflective surfaces
At the heart of this recognition is Raymaster 10, Wyse Light’s optical metrology instrument based on coaxial deflectometry, an innovative technology developed and patented by Wyse Light.
Raymaster 10 measures the shape of reflective surfaces, from flat optics to freeform components, with typical accuracy of 10–15 nm RMS, approximately λ/40.
The system was designed to bring high-end surface metrology closer to where it is needed. Raymaster 10 can be installed on a standard desk and does not require an optical table, a cleanroom, a dark room, or a temperature-controlled environment. It does not rely on laser interferometry and is insensitive to vibrations.
It is also fast to deploy and simple to operate: the instrument can be unboxed, set up, and running in 10–15 minutes, while a full measurement typically takes 2–3 minutes.
Solving a historical limitation of deflectometry
Deflectometry is a powerful method for measuring reflective surfaces by analysing how a surface distorts the image of reference fringes. However, conventional deflectometry has historically faced a fundamental ambiguity: a single measurement may correspond to multiple possible surface shapes.
Wyse Light’s patented coaxial deflectometry approach removes this ambiguity by performing multiple measurements at different distances, combined with highly accurate identification of the system geometry and minimal user intervention.
This technology has been presented in the Proceedings of SPIE at Optifab 2023, where Wyse Light demonstrated absolute measurements of spheres, aspheres, and freeform optics with accuracy approaching interferometric performance.
From laboratory-grade precision to industrial usability
For manufacturers of precision optics, aerospace systems, defence technologies, semiconductor equipment, and advanced optical systems, the ability to measure complex reflective surfaces quickly and reliably is a major challenge.
With Raymaster 10, Wyse Light aims to reduce the barriers to nanometre-level metrology: fewer complex alignments, no costly accessories dedicated to each sample geometry, and operation by non-expert users.
The instrument can measure a wide range of reflective surfaces, from plane optics to freeforms, without sample-specific accessories such as CGHs or dedicated lenses.
This is exactly the ambition captured by the project shortlisted by Electro Optics: “Bringing nanometre surface metrology to the shopfloor.”
See you at Optatec 2026
The winner of the Photonics Frontiers Award 2026 will be announced during the award ceremony at Optatec 2026, on 6 May 2026 at 15:30, in Frankfurt, at the Exhibitor Forum, Booth 625.
The entire Wyse Light team is proud of this nomination and would like to thank its customers, partners, and supporters for helping advance a new generation of optical metrology instruments.
We look forward to presenting our technology to the international photonics community and continuing to demonstrate that high-accuracy metrology can be precise, fast, and simple to use.
https://www.electrooptics.com/article/meet-photonics-frontiers-award-2026-shortlist
