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  1. xLight Finalizes $150M CHIPS Incentives With U.S. Department Of Commerce 6/2/2026

    xLight, the American company building the world’s most powerful lasers, today announced the signing of a final award of $150M in federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

  2. Scalable Laser System Enables Optical Atomic Clocks For A Wide Range Of Applications 6/2/2026

    In the future, optical atomic clocks are expected to measure time 40,000 times more accurately than established atomic clocks.

  3. SEALSQ Acquires Miraex SA, Cementing Its Quantum Sovereign Vertical Stack And Quantum Orbital Space Cloud (QOSC) 6/2/2026

    Strategic acquisition of Swiss photonics pioneer closes the quantum interconnect layer, uniting post-quantum silicon, orbital infrastructure, and distributed quantum sensing under one fully sovereign, end-to-end quantum architecture.

  4. Sivers & Globalfoundries Advance AI Data Center Optical Solutions 6/2/2026

    Sivers Semiconductors AB (STO: SIVE), a global leader in photonics and wireless technologies, today announced a strategic collaboration with GlobalFoundries (NASDAQ: GFS) (GF), to develop advanced silicon photonics solutions for the high-growth AI infrastructure market.

  5. Lightmatter Joins NVIDIA NVLink Fusion And Powers Next-Generation AI Infrastructure With Photonic Interconnects 6/2/2026

    Lightmatter, the leader in photonic (super)computing, today announced it has joined the NVIDIA NVLink Fusion ecosystem to accelerate the deployment of high-performance optical connectivity for AI infrastructure.

  6. New Low-Cost Tool Reveals Hidden Molecular Switch Points Under Light 6/1/2026

    Conical intersections are crucial molecular switching points in light-driven reactions, but accurately predicting them usually requires computations.

  7. Flexcompute Pioneers Agent-Driven Loop For Autonomous Photonic Design 6/1/2026

    Flexcompute, the physics company, today introduced the first practical fully autonomous agent-driven loop for end-to-end photonic chip design.

  8. Laser Breakthrough Rewrites The Rules Of Photonics Manufacturing 6/1/2026

    FreeForm Photonics is set to commercialise a laser-based process that builds alignment directly into optical glass components, removing the painstaking manual calibration that currently accounts for more than half of all photonics production costs.

  9. Using A Single Atom As A 'Camera' - Visualization Of Light Intensity And Polarization Beyond The Resolution Limit Of Optical Microscopes 5/29/2026

    A research group led by Assistant Professor Takafumi Tomita and Professor Kenji Ohmori at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, has developed a new microscopy technique called the "Atom Camera," which uses a single ultracold atom at near absolute zero temperature*1 trapped in an optical tweezer*2 as a camera to visualize the intensity and polarization*3 distributions of light at the nanometer (one-millionth of a millimeter) scale.

  10. Rice Physicists Advance Ways To Retrieve Matter's Quantum Entanglement 5/29/2026

    Quantum entanglement is a state in which particles are entwined with each other. In this entwined state, the properties of one particle influence the other, even when they aren’t physically close to each other.