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  1. Tower Semiconductor Announces New CPO Foundry Technology Available On Tower's Leading Sipho And EIC Optical Platforms 11/12/2025

    Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM), a leading foundry of high-value analog semiconductor solutions, today announced the expansion of its existing, mature 300mm wafer bonding technology, originally developed and in mass production for stacked BSI image sensors, to enable heterogeneous 3D-IC integration across its industry-leading Silicon Photonics (SiPho) and SiGe BiCMOS processes, including full support by Cadence design tools for the stacked platform technology.

  2. Scientists Make Dark Exciton States Shine, Unlocking New Frontiers For Nanotechnology 11/12/2025

    A research team at the City University of New York and the University of Texas at Austin has discovered a way to make previously hidden states of light, known as dark excitons, shine brightly, and control their emission at the nanoscale.

  3. Red Lasers Grown On Silicon Chips Could Power The Next Generation Of Quantum And Sensing Technologies 11/11/2025

    Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and MIT Lincoln Laboratory have, for the first time, demonstrated visible red lasers grown directly inside a silicon nitride photonic chip—a type of microchip that guides light rather than electricity.

  4. PINovAlign - Cost-Optimized, High-Speed Fiber-Alignment System For Silicon Photonics 11/11/2025

    PI (Physik Instrumente) offers a new 6-axis variant of its successful F-141 PINovAlign automated fiber alignment system.

  5. Photonics Start-Ups Powering Europe's Innovation 11/11/2025

    New data from Photonics21 shows Europe’s photonics start-up scene is accelerating, with 240 companies newly identified since 2024 and 556 active firms now tracked across the continent.

  6. POET Technologies And Quantum Computing Inc. To Co-Develop 3.2 Tbps Optical Engines For CPO And Next-Gen AI Connectivity 11/11/2025

     POET Technologies Inc. ("POET" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: POET), a leader in the design and implementation of highly-integrated optical engines and light sources for artificial intelligence networks, and Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) (NASDAQ: QUBT), an innovative integrated photonics and quantum optics technology company, today announced a strategic collaboration to develop 400G/Lane thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) modulator-based 3.2Tbps engines that will be designed to lead the next era of computing.

  7. PolyU Research Drives Commercialisation Of Energy-Efficient Solar Cell Technology Towards 40% Efficiency Milestone 11/10/2025

    Third-generation solar cell technology is advancing rapidly.

  8. Sparrow Quantum Launches Sparrow Nest 11/10/2025

    Making the world’s best single-photon source easy to use

  9. ERC Synergy Grant For Research On Highly Efficient Solar Cells 11/10/2025

    For their research project on highly efficient solar cells, Prof. Dr. Stefan Glunz from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and the University of Freiburg, Prof. Dr. Christoph Ballif from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and Dr. Stéphane Collin from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris have received a Synergy Grant.

  10. MicroVision Collaborates With Leading Photonics Ecosystem To Acquire FMCW Lidar Business 11/10/2025

    MicroVision, Inc., a technology pioneer delivering advanced perception solutions in autonomy and mobility, today announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire the business and assets of Scantinel Photonics GmbH, a developer of 1550nm frequency-modulated continuous wave, or FMCW, lidar technology targeted for initial application in the commercial vehicle market.