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  1. SPIE Welcomes 92 New Senior Members 7/29/2025

    The recognition honors scientific excellence and technical achievements, as well as active participation in the optics community.

  2. Xanadu And Hyperlight Unveil Groundbreaking Advancements In Photonic Chips, Setting New Benchmarks For Quantum Computing Performance 7/29/2025

    Xanadu, the leading photonic quantum computing company and HyperLight, creator of the TFLN Chiplet™ platform, have achieved through a joint effort a significant breakthrough in the development of thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic chips that demonstrate superior performance metrics.

  3. Researchers Make Key Gains In Unlocking The Promise Of Compact X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers 7/29/2025

    New research by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in collaboration with scientists from TAU Systems Inc., has brought the promise of smaller and more affordable X-ray free-electron lasers one step closer to reality.

  4. Many Analytical Applications Made Possible By One Flexible IR Laser System 7/29/2025

    Creating new laser systems for use in spectroscopy applications is a challenging and costly endeavor.

  5. Phoenix: Paderborn Scientists Develop New Open Source Programme For Quantum Physics 7/29/2025

    Scientists at the Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS) and the Paderborn Centre for Parallel Computing (PC2) at Paderborn University have developed a powerful open-source software tool that enables the simulation of light behaviour in quantum systems.

  6. Pioneering Interdisciplinary Research Drives Innovation In Optics And Photonics 7/28/2025

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) scholars harness the University’s multidisciplinary strengths to specialise in research on material synthesis, characterisation, and device fabrication for applications in lasers, photosensors and photothermal technologies.

  7. First-Of-Its-Kind Microscope Takes 3D Ghost Images Of Nanoparticles 7/28/2025

    Ghost imaging is like a game of Battleship. Instead of seeing an object directly, scientists use entangled photons to remove the background and reveal its silhouette.

  8. When Light Collides With Light 7/28/2025

    Usually, light waves can pass through each other without any resistance. According to the laws of electrodynamics, two light beams can exist in the same place without influencing each other; they simply overlap.

  9. Magnetizing Quantum Communication 7/28/2025

    As the demand for more secure data transmission increases, conventional communication technologies are facing limitations imposed by classical physics, and are therefore approaching their limits in terms of security.

  10. Zygo Unveils Groundbreaking Wide-Field Accessory For Non-Contact Optical Profilers At SPIE Optics + Photonics 2025 7/25/2025

    Zygo will debut its 0.5X ZWF Objective at SPIE 2025, offering the widest FOV for fast, high-precision optical metrology across large, complex surfaces.