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  1. Twisted 2D Materials Enable A Breakthrough In Single-Photon Detection 8/8/2025

    Dr Roshan Krishna Kumar participated in a study led by ICFO that overcame a long-standing barrier in photonics, developing an ultra-sensitive detector based on twisted 2D materials capable of detecting individual photons, even in the infrared spectrum.

  2. Researchers Turn Energy Loss Into A Way Of Creating Lossless Photonics-Based Devices 8/8/2025

    Electronic, optical and quantum systems are never perfect. Energy can leak from them, which is a ubiquitous and undesirable phenomenon that leads to various problems physicists refer to as decoherence, noise and loss.

  3. Ultrasmall Optical Devices Rewrite The Rules Of Light Manipulation 8/7/2025

    In the push to shrink and enhance technologies that control light, MIT researchers have unveiled a new platform that pushes the limits of modern optics through nanophotonics, the manipulation of light on the nanoscale, or billionths of a meter.

  4. Ascent Solar Technologies Establishes Rapid Thin-Film PV Delivery Process To Provide Customized Space Solar Products Ahead Of Schedule On Mission Enabling Timelines 8/7/2025

    Ascent Solar Technologies (“Ascent” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: ASTI), the leading U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, continues to set precedence via its new standard for rapid delivery of space-mission enabling PV products.

  5. QUT Researchers Shine Light On New Principle In Photochemistry 8/7/2025

    An international team led by QUT researchers continues to challenge a long-held assumption in photochemistry with potential applications in fields ranging from medicine to manufacturing.

  6. ICFO Researchers Overcome Long-Standing Bottleneck In Single Photon Detection With Twisted 2D Materials 8/7/2025

    While studying layered two-dimensional materials, ICFO researchers observed an anomaly—an unexpected transition in the system’s state triggered by light.

  7. Lumentum Expands U.S. Manufacturing For AI-Driven Co-Packaged Optics 8/7/2025

    Lumentum Holdings Inc. ("Lumentum"), a global leader in optical and photonic technology, today announced a significant milestone in its commitment to innovation and U.S.-based manufacturing. 

  8. An Ultrafast Light Switch Paves The Way For Optical Computing And Data Storage 8/7/2025

    A global team of physicists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and Monash University have developed an ultrafast optical switch that can turn light interactions on and off within trillionths of a second, a breakthrough that could revolutionise optical computing, secure communications and quantum technologies.

  9. Puente Solutions Founder and Principal Kyle J. Myers elected into SPIE presidential chain 8/6/2025

    The Society’s next vice president is an optics and photonics professional who has worked across industry, government, and academia, and a longstanding contributor to the SPIE community.

  10. Nanophotonics: An Ultrafast Light Switch 8/6/2025

    LMU researchers have developed a method that allows ultrafast control of the interactions between light and a material. This opens up new paths for faster optical computers, quantum communication, and photonic circuits.