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  1. A Breakthrough In Light Control 8/4/2026

    Light travels at extraordinary speed, yet the devices used to direct and manipulate it remain comparatively slow. What if light itself could be steered almost instantaneously—without moving mirrors, lenses, or mechanical components?

  2. CREOL Research Explores How Partially Coherent Light Could Transform Optical Communications 8/4/2026

    Featured on the cover of Optics & Photonics News, the article highlights how an emerging approach called structured coherence could improve optical communications, computing, and information processing.

  3. QuiX Quantum Launches Alquor 2.0 To Accelerate Photonic Quantum Research Beyond The Optical Table 8/4/2026

    QuiX Quantum today announced the commercial availability of Alquor 2.0, the next generation of its rack-mountable quantum photonic processor platform, available in 8-mode, 20-mode and 32-mode configurations, for advanced quantum optics, quantum communication, boson sampling, quantum information processing, and photonic quantum computing research.

  4. Aehr Test Systems Expands Silicon Photonics Production Momentum With Follow-On Production Order From Lead Customer 8/4/2026

    Aehr Test Systems, a leading provider of test and burn-in solutions for semiconductor devices used in artificial intelligence (AI), silicon photonics, data center, automotive, and industrial applications, today announced it has received a follow-on production order from its lead silicon photonics wafer-level burn-in (WLBI) customer for a fully automated FOX-XP multi-wafer production burn-in system to support the continued expansion of the customer’s manufacturing capacity for next-generation silicon photonic integrated circuits.

  5. Zooming In: Electron Orbitals Photographed In 3D 8/4/2026

    One of the most famous and intriguing results of quantum mechanics is the finding that fundamental particles, such as electrons, cannot be pinned down to one single location.

  6. IonQ And EPB Partner To Launch The Tennessee Quantum Communications Research Center 8/3/2026

    IonQ, Inc., the world’s leading quantum platform company, and EPB, Chattanooga’s energy and communications solutions company, today announced plans for the Tennessee Quantum Communications Research Center.

  7. New Mechanism For Channeling Of Light Discovered 8/3/2026

    Researchers from the 4th Physics Institute of the University of Stuttgart and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Milan have demonstrated a new mechanism for directing light in a naturally hyperbolic van der Waals material without the need for conventional nanofabricated waveguides.

  8. SEALSQ Launches Commercial Phase Of Miraex Quantum Photonics Technology Following Strategic Acquisition 7/31/2026

    SEALSQ Corp (NASDAQ: LAES), ("SEALSQ" or "Company"), a company focused on semiconductors, PKI, and post-quantum technology solutions, today announced the start of the commercial phase of the groundbreaking quantum photonics technology developed by Miraex SA, following the 100% acquisition of the Swiss company in June 2026.

  9. Breakthrough In Physics: Demonstration Of A Photonic Time Crystal 7/30/2026

    Yannis Laplace’s team at the Irradiated Solids Laboratory (LSI*) has just achieved a major breakthrough by demonstrating the operation of a “temporal photonic crystal.” This finding has been published in the journal *Nature*.

  10. Pusan National University Researchers Have Developed A Hybrid Quantum Network With Indistinguishable Quantum Sources 7/30/2026

    Large-scale quantum communication networks require both reliable quantum memories and coherent single-photon sources for efficient quantum information exchange.