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  1. OpenLight And Tower Semiconductor Expand PH18DA Photonics Ecosystem To Accelerate Photonic IC Development 8/11/2026

    OpenLight, a leader in heterogeneous III‑V‑on‑silicon photonic integration and custom Photonic Application‑Specific Integrated Circuits (PASICs), and Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM), the leading foundry for high-value analog semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of OpenLight’s photonic Process Design Kit (PDK) for Tower Semiconductor’s PH18DA indium phosphide (InP)-on-silicon photonics platform in Cadence’s electronic design automation (EDA) tools.

  2. Aeva Launches Optical Connectivity Business, Signs First Customer Agreement For A Major Hyperscaler 8/5/2026

    Aeva, a leader in next-generation sensing and perception systems, today announced the launch of Optical Connectivity, a new business focused on bringing Aeva’s proprietary high-power optical source and silicon photonics technology to next-generation artificial intelligence data centers.

  3. Quantum Corridor, Ciena, And Toshiba Complete World's First 1.6 Tb/s Quantum-Safe Optical Encryption Milestone On Live Commercial Network 8/4/2026

    Quantum Corridor, Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) and Toshiba have completed a successful trial of high-speed quantum-safe networking on Quantum Corridor’s live commercial network in the Midwest United States.

  4. Aliro Technologies And Zerothird Demonstrate Operational Quantum Networking With Cisco 7/14/2026

    Cisco is now testing Aliro Orchestrator as the quantum network management layer at its Cisco Photonics Center in Vimercate, Italy, to operate and manage a live entanglement-based quantum key distribution (eQKD) network built on zerothird’s eQKD system.

  5. SILITH And UMC Achieve Mass Production Milestone For Silicon Photonics 7/13/2026

    SILITH Technology, a silicon photonics fabless company, and United Microelectronics Corporation (“UMC”), a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced the first mass-production wafer delivery of photonic ICs from UMC’s Singapore fab, advancing the partnership between the two companies to scale next-generation silicon photonics manufacturing.

  6. Announcement Of Contract Award For Ministry Of Internal Affairs And Communications 'Research Project On Deployment Of All-Photonics Network Technologies In Overseas AI Data Centers' 6/24/2026

    ACCESS CO., LTD. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO Kiyo Oishi; hereinafter “ACCESS”) today announced that it has been awarded a contract from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) for a “Research Project on Development of All-Photonics Network Technologies in Overseas AI Data Centers.”

  7. Kopin Expands U.S. Operations With New Optics & Photonics Design Center In Dallas, Texas 6/23/2026

    Kopin Corporation a leading provider of application-specific optical systems and high-performance microdisplays for defense, training, enterprise, industrial, consumer and medical products, today announced plans to open a new Optics and Photonics Design Center in Dallas, Texas, further expanding the company’s U.S.‑based engineering footprint and accelerating development of next‑generation Neural I/o technology for the rapidly growing AI infrastructure market.

  8. Advantest Partners With OpenLight To Develop Silicon Photonics Test Solutions For High-Volume Manufacturing 6/23/2026

    Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation and OpenLight, a leader in heterogeneous silicon photonics integration and custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) design, today announced their plans to partner and develop solutions for scalable, high-volume silicon photonics testing.

  9. HyperLight Announces $80M Series C To Accelerate TFLN Deployment For AI Infrastructure 6/18/2026

    HyperLight Corporation (“HyperLight”), a leader in thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonics, today announced the closing of an $80M Series C financing round led by MediaTek.

  10. New Levels Of Computation Fidelity For Quantum Computing And Quantum Routing 6/16/2026

    OPTICA QUANTUM SUMMIT 2.0-- Quantum Pulse Ventures (QPV) today announced a strategic expansion of its composite pulse photonics platform, to address scalable, low loss integrated optical applications with unmatched computation fidelity and accuracy for quantum computers and quantum routers.