Stay up to date with the latest developments in LiDAR technology and products. From new releases and performance breakthroughs to industry trends and applications, here you'll find the most relevant LiDAR news and insights.

Explore innovations shaping the future of mapping, automation, and 3D sensing.

4 March 2026

Doppler Effect & Laser Vibrometry: Advanced Vibration Testing

Understand the Doppler effect’s role in scanning laser vibrometers and laser Doppler vibrometry. Explain how the vibration information can be used to extract relative displacements. Discover Ommatidia’s Q1 & Q2 Laser RADAR innovations for reliable vibration measurement in automotive and industrial applications.
18 November 2025

Vibration Measurement on Low-Reflectivity Automotive Materials

Q2 Laser Doppler Vibrometer succeeds in measuring vibration on dark, porous automotive materials and surfaces that typically defeat conventional optical systems. Showing stable, full-field, contactless measurements without surface preparation, enabling more accurate NVH and interior acoustic validation.
12 November 2025

Monitoring Bridge Deflection with Ommatidia’s Q-Series Laser Doppler vibrometer

Q-Series brings interferometric precision to bridge monitoring and structural health management. Using massively parallel FMCW LiDAR and photonic integration, it measures deflection and vibration across entire bridge spans, without contact or traffic disruption. From live-load deflection tests to digital twin development, allowing scalable, real-time insight into infrastructure performance and safety.
7 November 2025

How Our SpeckleGuard™ Technology Minimizes Noise

Speckle noise has long limited the accuracy of coherent laser vibrometry, especially on rough or composite surfaces. Ommatidia LiDAR’s SpeckleGuard™ technology tackles this challenge using compound aperture diversity and real-time fusion to stabilize velocity measurements across multiple beams. The result is cleaner data, higher measurement coherence, and reliable vibration analysis without surface preparation—even in demanding industrial or research environments.
4 November 2025

Vibration Analysis of PCBs for Critical Applications

Printed circuit boards used in space, defence, aeronautics, and transportation must endure extreme vibration without failure. Traditional accelerometer-based testing can’t reveal how individual components behave under load. Ommatidia’s massively parallel Laser Doppler Vibrometry (LDV) and Laser RADAR technology enable non-contact, high-resolution vibration analysis across entire PCBs—identifying failure-prone areas, validating designs, and ensuring reliability in critical applications.
23 October 2025

Full-Field Quantitative Modal Analysis in 20 Minutes: A Complete Workflow Guide

Traditional modal analysis can take days of setup and scanning to capture vibration data point by point. With Ommatidia LiDAR’s Q2 Laser RADAR, full-field quantitative modal analysis is completed in just 20 minutes. This walkthrough explains how parallel-beam laser radar delivers precise, non-contact 3D metrology and vibrometry across hundreds of points simultaneously—transforming how researchers, engineers, and testing labs measure structural dynamics.
19 October 2025

Ommatidia LiDAR contributes to young employment in Europe

Ommatidia LiDAR is growing Europe’s next generation of photonics and deep-tech talent by creating skilled roles in optics, electronics, software and test engineering. This hiring effort is supported by the European Social Fund Plus (FSE+) via the Community of Madrid’s youth employment programme, co-financed at 40%.
15 October 2025

Parallel Beam Laser RADAR: Benefits Over Scan Systems

Traditional scanning laser vibrometers capture one point at a time—slowing down measurements and missing critical vibration data. Parallel Beam Laser RADAR changes that. Using photonic integrated circuits to generate dozens of simultaneous laser channels, Ommatidia LiDAR’s Q1 and Q2 systems deliver faster, more accurate, and fully synchronized vibration and metrology measurements for aerospace, automotive, and industrial applications.
7 October 2025

Remote Sound Sensing with Laser RADAR: How the Q2 Redefines Vibration and Acoustic Analysis

Remote Sound Sensing with Laser RADAR introduces a new way to capture acoustic information — not with microphones, but with light. Using Ommatidia LiDAR’s massively parallel FMCW technology, sound waves and vibrations can be detected remotely through precise laser interferometry. This enables real-time, contact-free analysis of structures, machinery, and environments, unlocking new possibilities in industrial diagnostics, aerospace testing, and acoustic research.
30 April 2025

Non-Contact Vibrometry of Sand and Glass Bead Beds Using Q1/Q2 Laser RADAR

Ommatidia LiDAR’s Q1/Q2 Laser RADAR is bringing aerospace-grade optical vibrometry to geoscience. In a recent campaign, the system was deployed to analyze vibration propagation in sandbanks and glass bead beds—entirely without contact or surface instrumentation. By capturing high-resolution phase-resolved data from afar, researchers were able to reconstruct wave dynamics across fault-like structures, offering a powerful new tool for seismic studies, terrain diagnostics, and civil engineering applications.
24 March 2025

Korean Delegation Visits Ommatidia LIDAR to Boost Spain-Korea Collaboration

At Ommatidia LiDAR, we were honored to host a high-level Korean delegation led by Mr. Seungchul Oh, Vice Minister of MOTIE, and Ms. Min Byung Ju, President of KIAT. Their visit marked a significant milestone in Spain-Korea bilateral collaboration, as part of a KIAT initiative supported by CDTI_innovacion. Together with our partners IDNEO and DongWon Industries, we showcased our cutting-edge LiDAR technology and ongoing joint projects. This collaboration, which includes UPV, Hanyang University, ALC, and Viewnyx, reflects a strong commitment to driving industrial innovation across borders. We look forward to deepening this partnership and advancing shared technological goals.
10 February 2025

Ommatidia Atelier 8 & Q2 Laser RADAR: The Future of Precision Vibrometry

Ommatidia Atelier 8 Vibrometry is transforming vibration analysis, structural health monitoring, and industrial metrology. Traditional laser Doppler vibrometry (LDV) systems often struggle with speed limitations, noise […]