Business Wire

  1. Edgecore Networks Joins Taiwan–Japan Partnership To Advance IOWN All-Photonics Network 4/28/2026

    Edgecore Networks, the leader in open networking solutions and a subsidiary of Accton Group, today participated in the “AI IMPACT: Smart Cities and Southern Taiwan Achievement Showcase,” under the guidance of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), officially unveiling outcomes of the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) all-photonics network application.

  2. OpenLight Secures $50M In Series A-1 Funding To Accelerate Global Deployment Of Next-Generation Photonics 4/28/2026

    OpenLight, the world leader in custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) design leveraging its patented heterogeneous silicon photonics process, today announced it has raised an additional $50M in a Series A-1 round, bringing the company’s total funding to $84M.

  3. Seoul Viosys Eyes The $60B AI Data Center Optical Communication Market With Opto Semiconductors 4/27/2026

    Seoul Viosys, a company specializing in opto-semiconductor devices, is accelerating its entry into the next-generation photonics market supported by its proprietary “No-wire” and “No-package” fundamental patents—essential technologies for micrometer (μm)-scale miniaturization of opto-semiconductors—as well as its competitiveness in VCSEL technology.

  4. Vitrealab And poLight ASA Partner To Tackle Coherence Artifacts In Laser-LCoS AR Displays 4/23/2026

    Vitrealab GmbH and poLight ASA today announced a collaboration to advance laser illumination architectures for LCoS-based augmented reality (AR) displays, with a focus on mitigating coherence-related image artifacts while preserving system efficiency and compactness.

  5. Marvell Announces Acquisition Of Polariton Technologies, Advancing Optical Performance Scaling To 3.2T And Beyond 4/22/2026

    Marvell Technology, Inc., a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, today announced the acquisition of Polariton Technologies, a developer of high-speed, low-power plasmonics-based silicon photonics devices. 

  6. IonQ Selected For DARPA's Heterogeneous Architectures For Quantum (HARQ) Program 4/14/2026

    IonQ, the world’s leading quantum technology company, today announced that it has been awarded a contract in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Heterogeneous Architectures for Quantum (HARQ) program.

  7. X-lumin Breaks The 400 Gbps Barrier In Wireless Optical Communications, Setting A New Industry Standard For Terrestrial Laser Networks 4/14/2026

    Tomorrow City USA Conference--X-lumin, the leading terrestrial free-space optical (FSO) communications company, today announced it has achieved bidirectional wireless optical data transmission at 400 Gbps full duplex — an industry first — across its commercially deployed laser communication system in West Palm Beach, Florida.

  8. IonQ Achieves Key Photonic Interconnect Milestone, Demonstrating Networked Quantum Systems Using Entanglement 4/14/2026

    IonQ, the leading quantum company, today announced it has achieved a foundational technical milestone by photonically interconnecting two independent trapped-ion quantum systems.

  9. Credo Agrees To Acquire DustPhotonics, Accelerating Expansion Into Silicon Photonics And Next Generation Optical Connectivity 4/13/2026

    Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (Credo), an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved reliability and energy efficiency for the next generation of AI-driven applications, cloud computing, and hyperscale networks, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire DustPhotonics, a leading developer of Silicon Photonics Photonic Integrated Circuit (SiPho PIC) technology for optical transceivers.

  10. CACI Proudly Contributes Laser Communications And Sensing Technology to NASA's Historic Artemis II Mission 4/9/2026

    CACI International Inc.announced today it has successfully enabled advanced optical communications and sensing technologies for NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft.