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  1. Supermodes: When Lasers Team Up 7/25/2025

    Known for their ability to seamlessly integrate into semiconductor chips, VCSELs (vertical cavity surface emitting lasers) are used in everything from computer mice to face-scanning hardware in smartphones.

  2. Tandem Perovskites On Silicon: Canadian Technology From WattByWatt Tested By CEA 7/25/2025

    The CEA and Canadian start-up WattByWatt are collaborating on the development of processes for manufacturing tandem perovskite-on-silicon photovoltaic cells and have achieved an initial promising result with an efficiency of 28%.

  3. Ephos Secures €41.5M EU Chips Act Grant To Build Glass Photonic Chips Manufacturing Facility In Italy 7/25/2025

    Ephos, the leading producer of glass photonic chips, today announced it has secured a €41.5 ($49M) million grant from the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy, under the EU Chips Act, to build its new manufacturing facility in Italy.

  4. Could Metasurfaces Be The Next Quantum Information Processors? 7/24/2025

    In the race toward practical quantum computers and networks, photons — fundamental particles of light — hold intriguing possibilities as fast carriers of information at room temperature.

  5. Terahertz Light Controls Atomically Thin Semiconductors 7/24/2025

    Physicists at Bielefeld University and the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW Dresden) have developed a method to control atomically thin semiconductors using ultrashort light pulses.

  6. Laser Photonics Provides Update On Beamer Laser Marking Systems Transaction 7/24/2025

    Laser Photonics Corporation ("LPC"), $LASE, a global leader in industrial laser systems for cleaning and other material processing applications, today announced the completion of the integration of Beamer Laser Marking Systems ("Beamer") assets into LPC's operations in Florida.

  7. Coherent Introduces 100G Transimpedance Amplifiers For 400G/800G Optical Transceivers 7/24/2025

    Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a global leader in photonics, announces the addition of the 56 Gbaud PAM4 transimpedance amplifier (TIA) to its open-market ASIC portfolio.

  8. Design PCSELs With A Combination Of HAROLD And OmniSim Simulation Tools 7/23/2025

    Photon Design Ltd., the global leader in photonic simulation CAD software, now provides a market-leading, PCSEL and PCL design solution for laser designers, by using a combination of its HAROLD and OmniSim, simulation tools.

  9. Aegiq And Pixel Photonics Partner To Break Through The Current Quantum Computing Performance Ceiling And Enable Photonic Quantum Computing At Scale 7/23/2025

    Aegiq, a leading photonic quantum computing company, and Pixel Photonics, a pioneering single-photon detection company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to bring their technologies together on a shared photonic platform.

  10. Study Uncovers Technologically Appealing Trick Used By Microalgae To Manipulate Light 7/23/2025

    Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have uncovered an intricate light manipulation mechanism likely used by microscopic algae to boost photosynthesis.