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31. Capturing Fleeting Changes In 'Nanoscale Light'—Femtosecond Nano-Imaging Reveals Ultrafast Optical Control Of Phonon Polariton 8/31/2026

    Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) are hybrid light-matter waves that can confine infrared electromagnetic fields to spatial scales far below the corresponding free-space wavelength.

32. A Billion Times A Second: ITMO Researchers Create Silicon Film For Superfast Light Control 8/27/2026

    Scientists from ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Institute of Photonics in collaboration with researchers from Switzerland and China have created a thin film that can switch light with the speed of up to a billion times a second.

33. Defiance Launches PRAM, The First U.S.-Listed ETF To Combine Memory And Photonics^* 8/27/2026

    Defiance ETFs, a leader in thematic and income ETFs, today announced the launch of the Defiance Memory & Photonics ETF (Cboe: PRAM), the first U.S.-listed ETF to combine memory and photonics in a single fund.^*

34. Ghent University Researchers Develop An Ultrafast Component That Both Detects And Emits SWIR Light 8/27/2026

    From helping self-driving vehicles navigate through thick fog to identifying chemical compositions in food or biological samples: short-wave infrared (SWIR) technology enables applications that are not possible with ordinary visible light.

35. A Surprising Twist In The Quantum World 8/27/2026

    Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, ETH Zurich and the University of Amsterdam have directly observed the optical Magnus effect for the first time.

36. Experiments Reveal 'Critical Behavior' Of Light 8/27/2026

    Quantum gases of photons – the particles of light – exhibit “critical behavior” close to the phase transition to a Bose-Einstein condensate, where thermodynamic quantities become extremely large and eventually diverge at the transition point.

37. Light Gases Exhibit Critical Behavior 8/26/2026

    A team of researchers from the University of Bonn, Heidelberg University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico has studied the critical behavior of light particles (photons) close to a phase transition.

38. A Kickoff Symposium For The Japan-Taiwan Exchange Project Was Held In Taiwan 8/25/2026

    Professor Yoshitane Imai of the Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University, and Associate Professor Ming-Chia Li of National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan serve as the principal investigators for a Japan-Taiwan research group centered around five universities, including Ibaraki University, Osaka Metropolitan University, and National Central University in Taiwan.

39. Quantum Memories To Enable Long-Distance Networks 8/25/2026

    An international team of researchers is developing technology to enable long-range quantum networks.

40. Wits Researchers Use Light's Topology To Beat Atmospheric Distortion 8/25/2026

    Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the University of Bordeaux in France have demonstrated a new way of sending information through the atmosphere without having to correct for the distortions that normally disrupt optical communication.