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  1. Applied Energetics Strengthens IP Portfolio With Issuance Of Two Breakthrough Patents In Raman Amplification And Coherent Optical Sources 9/10/2025

    Applied Energetics, Inc., a pioneer in ultrashort pulse laser (USPL) and advanced directed energy solutions, today announced the issuance of two critical patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that significantly advance the state-of-the-art in laser-driven optical amplification and tunable, multi-wavelength light sources.

  2. Université Laval Professor Simon Thibault Appointed Series Editor Of SPIE Field Guides 9/9/2025

    Thibault will lead the SPIE Press series starting in January 2026.

  3. UZH Device Searches For Light Dark Matter 9/9/2025

    Superconducting sensors can detect single low-energy photons. UZH researchers have now used this capability to search for light dark matter particles in the universe.

  4. REDIMadrid Launches End-To-End Quantum Secure Data Transport Project With Ciena 9/9/2025

    REDIMadrid, the research network of Comunidad de Madrid, managed by IMDEA Software, recently collaborated with Ciena on the optical network foundation required to launch its End-to-End Quantum Secure Data Transport Project.

  5. Scintil Photonics Raises $58M To Scale Integrated Photonics For AI Factories 9/9/2025

    Scintil Photonics, a global technology leader in Heterogeneous Integrated Photonics for AI infrastructure, today announced the completion of a $58 million (€50M) Series B funding round led by Yotta Capital Partners and NGP Capital, with participation from NVIDIA.

  6. TAU Researchers Fold Glass Into Microscopic 3D Optical Devices 9/9/2025

    With a new method called photonic origami, researchers can bend ultra-thin glass sheets into complex, ultra-smooth structures directly on a chip — a step toward new optical devices for data processing, sensing, and experimental physics.

  7. Physicists Devise An Idea For Lasers That Shoot Beams Of Neutrinos 9/8/2025

    At any given moment, trillions of particles called neutrinos are streaming through our bodies and every material in our surroundings, without noticeable effect.

  8. New Milestone For RIBER In Silicon Photonics With A ROSIE Order In The United States 9/8/2025

    8:00 am - RIBER, a global market leader in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) equipment for the semiconductor industry, announces a new order for a ROSIE system from a new US-based customer specialized in quantum computing.

  9. Shedding Light On Insulators: How Light Pulses Unfreeze Electrons 9/8/2025

    Metal oxides are abundant in nature and central to technologies such as photocatalysis and photovoltaics.

  10. New Light-Based Chip Boosts Power Efficiency Of AI Tasks 100 Fold 9/8/2025

    A team of engineers has developed a new kind of computer chip that uses light instead of electricity to perform one of the most power-intensive parts of artificial intelligence — image recognition and similar pattern-finding tasks.