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  1. ERC Grant For Thorsten Schumm 6/23/2026

    Manipulating atomic nuclei with lasers: Thorsten Schumm has founded a new field of research that long seemed almost impossible – and has now been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for this work.

  2. Harvesting UV Light From Sunlight Just Got 'Solid' 6/23/2026

    Two cups of warm water don’t make one cup of boiling water. But in the quantum world, multiple low-energy photons can combine to produce a single, higher-energy photon.

  3. Kopin Expands U.S. Operations With New Optics & Photonics Design Center In Dallas, Texas 6/23/2026

    Kopin Corporation a leading provider of application-specific optical systems and high-performance microdisplays for defense, training, enterprise, industrial, consumer and medical products, today announced plans to open a new Optics and Photonics Design Center in Dallas, Texas, further expanding the company’s U.S.‑based engineering footprint and accelerating development of next‑generation Neural I/o technology for the rapidly growing AI infrastructure market.

  4. Q.ANT Runs Generative AI On Photonic Hardware 6/23/2026

    Q.ANT, the pioneer in commercial photonic computing, today demonstrated the first complex, production-relevant AI workloads on its photonic hardware.

  5. Advantest Partners With OpenLight To Develop Silicon Photonics Test Solutions For High-Volume Manufacturing 6/23/2026

    Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation and OpenLight, a leader in heterogeneous silicon photonics integration and custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) design, today announced their plans to partner and develop solutions for scalable, high-volume silicon photonics testing.

  6. Creating Complex Light Patterns Using A Two-Century-Old Light Phenomenon 6/23/2026

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have used a classic optical phenomenon known as the “Poisson spot” to create stable patterns of light called “optical skyrmions”.

  7. NTHU Researchers Develop World's Brightest Single-Photon Source For Quantum Technologies 6/22/2026

    A research team led by Professor Hao-Wu Lin from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) has developed the world’s brightest room-temperature single-photon source, which uniquely combines ultrafast and non-blinking emission.

  8. Lithium-Doped Carbon Nanorings Show Promise For Next-Generation Optical Devices 6/22/2026

    Nonlinear optical materials are essential for advanced photonics and laser technologies, but researchers are still searching for ways to optimize organic, carbon-based alternatives.

  9. Graphene Plasmon Cavities Enable Advanced And Scalable Terahertz Photodetectors 6/22/2026

    ICFO researchers have developed a novel platform based on monolayer graphene that produces an efficient electrical response when exposed to terahertz light.

  10. Twisting Quantum Potential Into Reality 6/22/2026

    UTS researchers have discovered a new way to control tiny quantum light sources by twisting atomically thin layers of hexagonal boron nitride.