Current Headlines

  1. New Light-Based Chip Boosts Power Efficiency Of AI Tasks 100 Fold 9/8/2025

    A team of engineers has developed a new kind of computer chip that uses light instead of electricity to perform one of the most power-intensive parts of artificial intelligence — image recognition and similar pattern-finding tasks.

  2. A New Way To Guide Light, Undeterred 9/8/2025

    Relaying a message from point A to B can be as simple as flashing a thumbs-up at a stranger in an intersection, signaling them to proceed—nonverbal, clear, and universally understood. But light-based communication is rarely that straightforward.

  3. Aircision Eyes More Free-Space Optics With Integrated Photonics 9/7/2025

    As the Eindhoven-based startup Aircision prepares a first wave of ‘fibre-optics through the air,’ it’s eyeing integrated photonics to power a next-generation of products.

  4. Discovery Unlocks Potential Of 'Miracle Material' For Future Electronics 9/5/2025

    Graphene is an extraordinary material – a sheet of interlocking carbon atoms just one atom thick that is stable and extremely conductive.

  5. IonQ Breakthrough In Synthetic Diamond Materials Accelerates Quantum Networking Scale And Production 9/4/2025

    IonQ, the leader in the quantum computing and networking industries, today announced a significant breakthrough in creating essential hardware for building large-scale quantum networks and clustered compute.

  6. POET Technologies To Showcase Breakthrough Light Source And 1.6T Optical Engines For AI And Cloud Markets At CIOE 2025 9/4/2025

    POET Technologies Inc. ("POET" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: POET), a leader in the design and implementation of highly-integrated optical engines and light sources for artificial intelligence networks, today announced that it will be showcasing live demonstrations of its latest optical products at the 2025 China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE), taking place September 10–12 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center.

  7. NSF CAREER Award Enables Light-Powered Computing Research 9/4/2025

    A University of Kentucky researcher is developing electro-photonic circuits, a technology that could dramatically reduce the energy demands of computing and communication in the age of artificial intelligence.

  8. Harnessing The Potential Of 4H-SiC In Optomechanical Devices 9/3/2025

    When it comes to optomechanical applications, silicon carbide (SiC) has significant potential due to its excellent optical and mechanical properties.

  9. University Spin-Out Secures Funding To Improve AI Energy Efficiency And Bandwidth 9/3/2025

    CamGraPhIC – co-founded by Professor Andrea Ferrari, Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre, and Dr Marco Romagnoli of CNIT in Italy – is developing new types of photonic circuits for energy-efficient, high-bandwidth, optical interconnect technology.

  10. VCTI Launches Open-Source AI Encoder Model To Power The Next Generation Of Optical Communications Innovation 9/3/2025

    VCTI, a leader in broadband and telecom network intelligence, has released a first-of-its-kind open-source AI model designed specifically for the optical communications and photonics industries.