Current Headlines

  1. Edgecore Networks Joins Taiwan–Japan Partnership To Advance IOWN All-Photonics Network 4/28/2026

    Edgecore Networks, the leader in open networking solutions and a subsidiary of Accton Group, today participated in the “AI IMPACT: Smart Cities and Southern Taiwan Achievement Showcase,” under the guidance of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), officially unveiling outcomes of the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) all-photonics network application.

  2. OpenLight Secures $50M In Series A-1 Funding To Accelerate Global Deployment Of Next-Generation Photonics 4/28/2026

    OpenLight, the world leader in custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) design leveraging its patented heterogeneous silicon photonics process, today announced it has raised an additional $50M in a Series A-1 round, bringing the company’s total funding to $84M.

  3. Monarch Quantum And Oratomic Announce Quantum Computing Partnership To Accelerate Utility-Scale, Fault-Tolerant Systems By The End Of The Decade 4/28/2026

    Monarch Quantum, a U.S.-based quantum photonics company developing integrated photonics systems for scalable quantum computing, and Oratomic, a U.S.-based neutral atom quantum computing company focused on fault-tolerant architectures, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the commercialization of utility-scale quantum computers.

  4. Scientists Discover Surprising New Way To Control Light 4/28/2026

    Scientists at the University of East Anglia have uncovered a hidden property of light that allows it to twist, spin and behave differently - without mirrors, materials or special lenses.

  5. Skoltech Team Develops Modulator For Compact Photonic Integrated Circuits 4/28/2026

    Researchers at Skoltech (part of the VEB.RF group) have developed an ultra-compact electro-optic modulator based on silicon photonics and plasmonics that enables high-efficiency optical signal control within a small device footprint.

  6. Seoul Viosys Eyes The $60B AI Data Center Optical Communication Market With Opto Semiconductors 4/27/2026

    Seoul Viosys, a company specializing in opto-semiconductor devices, is accelerating its entry into the next-generation photonics market supported by its proprietary “No-wire” and “No-package” fundamental patents—essential technologies for micrometer (μm)-scale miniaturization of opto-semiconductors—as well as its competitiveness in VCSEL technology.

  7. Luceda Photonics Announces Availability Of DRC Deck For Advanced Micro Foundry (Now Part Of Globalfoundries) 4/24/2026

    Luceda Photonics today announced the availability of a dedicated Design Rule Check (DRC) deck for Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF), now part of GlobalFoundries (GF).

  8. Indigenously Developed Silicon Photonics Technology Solutions Launched 4/24/2026

    Shri S. Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, launched two Silicon Photonics technology solutions: (a) Silicon Photonics Process Design Kit (PDK) for photonics chip manufacturing, and (b) Universal packaged PPIC (Programmable Photonic Integrated Circuit) Test Engine indigenously developed at MeitY sponsored CoE-CPPICS, IIT Madras, in presence of Shri Amitesh Sinha, Additional Secretary, MeitY and CEO of India Semiconductor Mission (ISM), Prof Shanti Bhattacharya, HoD DoEE, IIT Madras, Governing Council Members of the centre.

  9. Riding The Quantum Wave: Quasiparticles Reveal A Magneto-Optical Transport Phenomenon 4/24/2026

    A Dresden-based research team from the Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat has discovered a novel transport phenomenon.

  10. Quantum Materials: Volkswagen Foundation Provides € 2M For Eckhardt Endowed Professorship At Goethe University 4/24/2026

    Physicist Olena Fedchenko conducts research at Goethe University on novel quantum materials that will be key to future technological breakthroughs.