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  1. Fabrication Platform Could Enable Flexible, Transparent Next-Generation Photonic Chips 9/3/2026

    The field of silicon photonics, which uses light rather than electricity to transmit and process data on semiconductor chips, has enabled optical systems to evolve from bulky setups to compact and advanced systems. Typically, however, these silicon-photonics chips are rigid and opaque.

  2. Exploring New Ways To Control Light On Photonic Chips 9/3/2026

    Modern society increasingly relies on optical systems that control and measure light for applications such as fast wireless communication, safe autonomous vehicles, and high-quality biomedical imaging.

  3. New Device Design Could Miniaturize Photonics, Quantum Technologies 9/3/2026

    New research from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) paves the way to smaller and more efficient components for telecommunications, quantum communication, and other photonic technologies.

  4. Brisbane Opens Australia's First Facility To Transform Advanced Microchips Into Market-Ready Technologies 9/2/2026

    Fibre optic communication and advanced sensing technology with applications in healthcare, quantum computing, mining, fire detection and construction could all be soon developed with next-generation microchips packaged in Brisbane.

  5. New Research Shows A Neutrino Laser Is Impossible 9/2/2026

    Neutrinos are the pervasive yet intangible particles that permeate the universe, streaming through whole planets, stars, and our bodies by the trillions each second.

  6. Researchers Use Light To Generate Nanoscale Magnetization 9/2/2026

    Using an engineered metasurface that traps light, Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new way to generate strong static magnetic fields without using external magnets or magnetic materials – an approach that could advance spintronics, quantum and photonic computing, and data storage.

  7. Homerun Resources Inc. Expands Pathway To High-Purity Feedstocks For Next-Generation Silicon And Silicon Carbide Integrated Photonic And Quantum Networks 9/1/2026

    Homerun Resources Inc. (“Homerun” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide a comprehensive strategic update on the expansion of its high-purity silica feedstock pathway to support the next-generation Fused Silica, Silicon and Silicon Carbide (SiC) integrated photonics, advanced telecommunications, and quantum networking industries.

  8. A Multiplexed Quantum Photonic Interface For Neutral-Atom Quantum Computers 9/1/2026

    A research group in Japan led by Professor YAMAMOTO Takashi, Deputy Director, Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology / Graduate School of Engineering Science, the University of Osaka, in collaboration with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., has successfully demonstrated a world-record 10-channel multiplexed quantum photonic interface based on an integrated waveguide array, a key technology for optically interconnecting multiple quantum computers.

  9. Telesat Government Solutions And Cailabs Collaborate On Secure Optical Connectivity For Government Missions 9/1/2026

    Telesat Government Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Telesat Corporation (Nasdaq and TSX: TSAT), and Cailabs US, Inc. today announced the signing of a strategic collaboration agreement to explore the integration of secure, resilient and high-capacity optical space-to-ground connectivity for U.S. Government and Allied missions.

  10. Researchers Film The First Moments On The Way From Light To Electricity 9/1/2026

    Physicists at Forschungszentrum Jülich, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Graz and Marburg University, have achieved a scientific breakthrough. For the first time, the generation of electrical energy from light has been filmed and described theoretically.