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1. EPIGAP OSA Introduces Multi-Wavelength, High-Power LED Module, Operating From Visible To Near Infrared 11/6/2026

   EPIGAP OSA Photonics GmbH, a leading global manufacturer and innovator of custom and standard LEDs and photodetectors, introduces the OMC-704, a Multi-Wavelength High Power LED Module with user-selectable wavelengths from 365 nm to 2300 nm. 

2. Netherlands – Taiwan TechBridge Call: Four New Innovation Projects By Two Innovation Ecosystems 11/4/2026

   The global demand for AI, faster connectivity and quantum computing is increasing the need for photonic technologies.

3. QuiX Quantum Advances Europe's Industrial Quantum Computing Ambitions Through €50M P4Q Initiative 11/4/2026

   QuiX Quantum, a Dutch-German developer of universal photonic quantum computers, is contributing to Europe's transition from quantum research to industrial-scale quantum computing through Photonics for Quantum (P4Q), a €50M European pilot-line initiative co-funded by the EU Chips Joint Undertaking and national funding authorities.

4. Isolator-Free Optical Transmitter Could Shrink Data Center Interconnects 11/4/2026

   The growing demand for faster data exchange between data centers calls for compact, high-speed optical transmitters.

5. Aeva Expands Product Portfolio For Optical Connectivity Market 11/4/2026

   Aeva, a leader in next-generation sensing and perception systems, today introduced an expanded portfolio of solutions within Optical Connectivity, Aeva’s business that leverages proprietary high-power, low noise optical sources and multiwavelength integrated silicon photonics technologies for next-generation AI data centers.

6. Quantum Technologies Of The Future: Munich Quantum Valley Brings Its Event Series To MPL 11/3/2026

   Munich Quantum Valley (MQV), funded by the Bavarian High-Tech Agenda, emerged from a collaboration among seven major Bavarian research institutes – including the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL).

7. A New Quantum State Of Matter Works At Room Temperature 11/3/2026

   Researchers from the University of Warsaw, the Military University of Technology (Poland), IBM Research Zurich, and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) have observed a new quantum state of matter known as a supersolid in an exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensate.

8. RTX's Raytheon To Develop New Optical Signal Processing Capability 11/3/2026

   Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has been awarded a phase one contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop an all-optical processing system for the Photonic Integrated Circuit Architectures for Scalable System Objectives, or PICASSO, program.

9. 'We Want To Rethink A Fundamental Building Block Of The Digital World' 11/3/2026

   Modern computers work with binary signals: zeros and ones. Pablo Marin-Palomo of the VUB research group B-PHOT is exploring a very different way of transmitting information.

10. ARIA's Scaling Inference Lab Deploys Lumai's Optical Compute Technology To Help Power AI Era 11/3/2026

    In a world first, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), a UK public R&D funding agency, will deploy 3D optical inference technology from Lumai, the optical compute company building next-generation AI infrastructure.