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  1. New Low-Cost Tool Reveals Hidden Molecular Switch Points Under Light 6/1/2026

    Conical intersections are crucial molecular switching points in light-driven reactions, but accurately predicting them usually requires computations.

  2. Flexcompute Pioneers Agent-Driven Loop For Autonomous Photonic Design 6/1/2026

    Flexcompute, the physics company, today introduced the first practical fully autonomous agent-driven loop for end-to-end photonic chip design.

  3. Laser Breakthrough Rewrites The Rules Of Photonics Manufacturing 6/1/2026

    FreeForm Photonics is set to commercialise a laser-based process that builds alignment directly into optical glass components, removing the painstaking manual calibration that currently accounts for more than half of all photonics production costs.

  4. Using A Single Atom As A 'Camera' - Visualization Of Light Intensity And Polarization Beyond The Resolution Limit Of Optical Microscopes 5/29/2026

    A research group led by Assistant Professor Takafumi Tomita and Professor Kenji Ohmori at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, has developed a new microscopy technique called the "Atom Camera," which uses a single ultracold atom at near absolute zero temperature*1 trapped in an optical tweezer*2 as a camera to visualize the intensity and polarization*3 distributions of light at the nanometer (one-millionth of a millimeter) scale.

  5. Rice Physicists Advance Ways To Retrieve Matter's Quantum Entanglement 5/29/2026

    Quantum entanglement is a state in which particles are entwined with each other. In this entwined state, the properties of one particle influence the other, even when they aren’t physically close to each other.

  6. Physicists Find New, Improved Way To Control Light At The Nanoscale 5/28/2026

    Physicists developed a microscopic, nonlinear light source that can be switched on, off or tuned to a particular intensity by an electrical “knob.”

  7. Xairos Achieves Free-Space Quantum And Optical Testing Milestone 5/28/2026

    Xairos Systems today announced a significant milestone for the Ares Quantum Optical Terminal, a robust system designed to deliver quantum-secure, high-data-rate communications and resilient position, navigation, and timing (PNT) in RF- and GPS-denied environments.

  8. Credo Completes Acquisition Of DustPhotonics 5/28/2026

    Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (Credo), an innovator in providing connectivity at scale through fast, reliable, and energy-efficient system solutions, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of DustPhotonics.

  9. Ultrafast Microscopy Method For Optical Processes 5/28/2026

    An extremely fast microscopy method to research the interaction of light and matter makes it possible to study optical processes on very short timescales.

  10. Wiwynn And Ecosystem Partners To Showcase Co-Packaged Optics Innovations At Computex 2026 5/28/2026

    Wiwynn, an innovative cloud IT infrastructure provider for data center, today announced it will unveil its latest Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) interconnect technologies at Computex 2026 (Nangang Exhibition Center Hall 1, Booth #J0106).