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  1. Researchers Build Ultra-Efficient Optical Sensors Shrinking Light To A Chip 3/23/2026

    CU Boulder researchers have built high performing optical microresonators opening the door for new sensor technologies.

  2. Flexcompute And GlobalFoundries Enable Integrated Design And Simulation On GF Silicon Photonics Platform 3/18/2026

    Flexcompute, the physics company, today announced collaboration with GlobalFoundries (GF) to integrate GF's silicon photonics technology stack into PhotonForge, its photonic design and simulation platform powered by the Tidy3D multi-physics engine.

  3. Quantum-Inspired Laser System Delivers Distance Measurements With Sub-Millimetre Accuracy 3/17/2026

    A new laser range-finding technique, inspired by quantum physics, which can measure distances under strong solar background has been demonstrated by researchers at the University of Bristol.

  4. Higher Performance, Less Energy: Q.ANT Deploys Second-Generation Photonic Processors At Supercomputing Center LRZ 3/17/2026

    Q.ANT today announced the deployment of its second-generation photonic processors in a high-performance computing (HPC) environment at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ).

  5. Teradyne Introduces Photon 100 3/17/2026

    Teradyne, Inc., a leading provider of automated test equipment and advanced robotics, today announced the launch of the Photon 100, a comprehensive opto-electric automated test platform purpose-built to accelerate high-volume silicon photonics (SiPh) and co-packaged optics (CPO) manufacturing.

  6. Centera Photonics Announces First 1.6Tbps DR8 LPO Transceiver Based On NewPhotonics® LPO+™ PIC With Integrated OSPic™ Optical Signal Processor 3/17/2026

    Centera Photonics Inc., a silicon photonics optical solution provider for data center interconnect, today announced its first 1.6Tbps DR8 LPO transceiver module featuring the NewPhotonics® NPG10203 1.6T LPO+™ PIC with integrated lasers, modulators, and OSPic™ optical signal processor.

  7. Scientists Create A New State Of Matter At Room Temperature Using Light And Nanostructures 3/17/2026

    Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter — known as a supersolid — by engineering how light and matter interact inside a nanoscale device.

  8. NewPhotonics® Introduces Syncra™ Self Calibrating Heaterless MRM Solution To Drive Next Generation High Density CPO Performance 3/16/2026

    OFC 2026, NewPhotonics Ltd. today introduced Syncra™ micro-ring modulators (MRM), the industry's first non-heater enabled by Niox™ zero loss monitoring and real-time calibration photonic device technology.

  9. A Clear Roadmap For Engineering Combs Of Light 3/16/2026

    Optical frequency combs — laser sources that emit evenly spaced colors of light — are foundational, ubiquitous tools for precision measurement, found in optical clocks, gas-sensing spectrometers, and instruments that detect the light signatures of exoplanets.

  10. Ultrafast Laser Pulses Bring Diamond-Based Quantum Internet Closer To Reality 3/16/2026

    Researchers from Berlin have demonstrated a new method for generating single photons in a diamond-based quantum system. This progress brings quantum technologies an important step closer to practical applications.