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  1. A Ultrafast Laser On A Chip 6/4/2026

    EPFL researchers have built a photonic chip that rivals much larger laboratory lasers, delivers extremely short, high-energy optical pulses, and could reshape technologies like medical diagnostics and optical atomic clocks.

  2. Visualizing Spatial Chirality With Terahertz Imaging 6/3/2026

    Chiral objects can behave differently depending on their handedness.

  3. UC San Diego Team Pairs AI With Tiny Optical Device To Correct Distorted Light For Sharper Imaging 6/3/2026

    Blurry light from lens imperfections is a problem everywhere from microscopes to telescopes to smartphone cameras.

  4. Keysight Expands Photonics Design Ecosystem With GlobalFoundries PDK 6/3/2026

    Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced support for GlobalFoundries’ (GF) silicon photonics process technology in its Advanced Design System (ADS) Photonic Designer, expanding its foundry ecosystem for photonic integrated circuit (PIC) development.

  5. Building InP-Based Photonic Integrated Circuits With SMART Photonics 6/2/2026

    Indium phosphide (InP) enables fully integrated photonic chips with high performance and efficiency. As an InP foundry, SMART Photonics supports the transition from design to scalable production through mature platforms and proven design flows.

  6. xLight Finalizes $150M CHIPS Incentives With U.S. Department Of Commerce 6/2/2026

    xLight, the American company building the world’s most powerful lasers, today announced the signing of a final award of $150M in federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

  7. Scalable Laser System Enables Optical Atomic Clocks For A Wide Range Of Applications 6/2/2026

    In the future, optical atomic clocks are expected to measure time 40,000 times more accurately than established atomic clocks.

  8. SEALSQ Acquires Miraex SA, Cementing Its Quantum Sovereign Vertical Stack And Quantum Orbital Space Cloud (QOSC) 6/2/2026

    Strategic acquisition of Swiss photonics pioneer closes the quantum interconnect layer, uniting post-quantum silicon, orbital infrastructure, and distributed quantum sensing under one fully sovereign, end-to-end quantum architecture.

  9. Sivers & Globalfoundries Advance AI Data Center Optical Solutions 6/2/2026

    Sivers Semiconductors AB (STO: SIVE), a global leader in photonics and wireless technologies, today announced a strategic collaboration with GlobalFoundries (NASDAQ: GFS) (GF), to develop advanced silicon photonics solutions for the high-growth AI infrastructure market.

  10. Lightmatter Joins NVIDIA NVLink Fusion And Powers Next-Generation AI Infrastructure With Photonic Interconnects 6/2/2026

    Lightmatter, the leader in photonic (super)computing, today announced it has joined the NVIDIA NVLink Fusion ecosystem to accelerate the deployment of high-performance optical connectivity for AI infrastructure.