Current Headlines

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. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.”