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  1. Lightmatter Expands Photonic Interconnect Roadmap With Passage L20 Unified Optical Engine For NPO And OBO Applications 3/11/2026

    Lightmatter, the leader in photonic (super)computing, today announced the Passage L20, a 6.4 Tbps (each direction) optical engine (OE) designed to accelerate the AI data center transition to high-density optical interconnect for multi-rack scale-up and high-bandwidth scale-out. 

  2. Quantum Computing Inc. And Ciena Demonstrate Next-Generation Quantum-Secured Communications With High-Speed Encryption Using PQC And QKD At OFC 2026 3/11/2026

    Quantum Computing Inc. ("QCi" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: QUBT) an innovative, quantum optics and integrated photonics technology company, and Ciena (Nasdaq: CIEN) today announced a joint demonstration of next-generation quantum secure communications at OFC 2026 in the Corporate Village Booth #5355. 

  3. Scintil Releases DWDM Laser Source Evaluation Kit For Scale-Up AI Networks 3/11/2026

    As AI systems scale from single-rack scale up network systems to multi-rack configurations up to 1,000s of AI processors, copper interconnects have reached their limits in speed, density, and reach.

  4. HyperLight, UMC, and Wavetek Announce Strategic Partnership For High-Volume Foundry Production Of TFLN Chiplet Platform 3/11/2026

    HyperLight Corporation (“HyperLight”), United Microelectronics Corporation (“UMC”), and Wavetek Microelectronics Corporation (“Wavetek”), a wholly owned subsidiary of UMC, today announced a strategic manufacturing partnership for high-volume foundry production of HyperLight’s TFLN (thin-film lithium niobate) Chiplet Platform on both 6-inch and 8-inch wafers.

  5. Xscape Photonics Announces $37M In New Funding, Launches Eight-Wavelength Laser For AI Data Center Networks 3/11/2026

    Xscape Photonics (“the Company”), a semiconductor startup developing photonic solutions for next-generation AI data center fabrics, today announced $37M in additional funding, bringing the company’s total Series A funding to $81M.

  6. Acoustic Driving Enables Controlled Condensation Of Light And Matter On Chip 3/11/2026

    An international research team led by Alexander Kuznetsov at the Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics (PDI) in Berlin has demonstrated a fundamentally new way to control the condensation of hybrid light-matter particles.

  7. A Dynamic Twist Of Light's 'Handedness' 3/11/2026

    Researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a chip-scale device that can dynamically control the “handedness” of light as it passes through – also known as its optical chirality – with a simple twist of two specially designed photonic crystals. 

  8. New Photonic Device Efficiently Beams Light Into Free Space 3/11/2026

    Photonic chips use light to process data instead of electricity, enabling faster communication speeds and greater bandwidth.

  9. New 'Vacuum Ultraviolet' Laser May Improve Nanotechnology, Power Nuclear Clocks 3/11/2026

    The researchers say the device could one day allow scientists to observe phenomena currently out of reach for even the most powerful microscopes—such as following fuel molecules in real time as they undergo combustion, spotting incredibly small defects in nanoelectronics and more.

  10. CEA-Leti And NcodiN Partner To Industrialize 300 mm Silicon Photonics For Bandwidth-Hungry AI Interconnects 3/11/2026

    CEA-Leti and NcodiN, a French deep-tech startup pioneering nanolaser-enabled photonic interconnects, today announced a strategic collaboration to industrialize NcodiN’s optical interposer technology on a 300 mm integrated photonics process.