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31. Applications open for 2026 SPIE Startup Challenge 9/2/2025

    The annual pitch competition welcomes participants leveraging optics or photonics technologies or applications as the basis for a viable business.

32. Countdown to Innovation: CIOE 2025 Opens Its Doors in Just One Week! 9/2/2025

    The 26th China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE) will take place from September 10 to 12, 2025, at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center. As the global benchmark event for the optoelectronic industry, CIOE 2025 will bring together over 3,800 leading enterprises showcasing innovations across the entire industry chain—from information and communication to precision optics, lasers, AR/VR, infrared applications, intelligent sensing, and display technologies.

33. Silicon photonics And Co-Packaged Optics At The Heart Of Next-Generation AI-Driven Data Infrastructure 9/2/2025

    The silicon photonics industry is entering a period of rapid growth and diversification, according to Yole Group’s new report, Silicon Photonics 2025 – Focus on SOI, SiN, LNOI & InP Platforms.

34. TNF Pharmaceuticals Secures Exclusive Global Rights To Innovative Light Speed Computing Accelerator For Use In Cryptocurrency Applications 9/2/2025

    TNF Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“TNF” or the “Company”) today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement for an innovative processing accelerator designed to expedite compute-intensive computations In partnership with LightSolver Ltd. (“LightSolver”), a company recognized by Gartner and the World Economic Forum for its breakthrough innovation.

35. Geometry Revealed At The Heart Of Quantum Matter 9/2/2025

    How can data be processed at lightning speed, or electricity conducted without loss? To achieve this, scientists and industry alike are turning to quantum materials, governed by the laws of the infinitesimal.

36. Qubits Under Control: Scalable Technology For Quantum Computers Through Spatial Light Modulators 9/1/2025

    The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have achieved groundbreaking results in generating arbitrary light distributions.

37. Propelling Solar Technology Into A Perovskite Future 8/29/2025

    A major challenge in photovoltaics is how to build high-performance solar cells that are cost-effective, reliable and sustainable. Perovskites – a unique class of semiconductor materials – show great promise to tackle this challenge and could lead to lightweight, flexible and more affordable solar panels.

38. Making The Invisible Visible: A New Way To Boost Light Emission At The Nanoscale 8/29/2025

    Light still holds surprises – as demonstrated by researchers from the Ultrafast Phenomena Lab at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, in collaboration with the Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, who have discovered a new enhancement effect in the emission of upconverting nanoparticles.

39. UCLA Researchers Pioneer Optical Generative Models, Ushering In A New Era Of Sustainable Generative AI 8/27/2025

    In a major leap for artificial intelligence (AI) and photonics, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have created optical generative models, capable of producing novel images using the physics of light instead of conventional electronic computation.

40. Quantum Memory Array At ICFO Brings Us Closer To A Quantum RAM 8/26/2025

    The internet, social media, and digital technologies have completely transformed the way we establish commercial, personal and professional relationships.