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31. Singular Photonics Lands Funding To Launch Next-Generation Image Sensors As Commercial Traction Grows 8/19/2026

    Singular Photonics, a developer of SPAD-based image sensors, today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $2.15 million funding round, led by ACF Investors, with participation from Wren Capital, Cambridge Angels, Scottish Enterprise, Quantum Exponential and Old College Capital.

32. Kitchen Foil Unlocks The Future Of Terahertz Technology 8/19/2026

    When physicists at the ARC Centre for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) needed a key component for their terahertz experiments, they ran into a frustrating problem – they needed tiny optical devices, known as wire-grid polarisers, but these cost thousands of dollars each.

33. 3D-Printed Ceramic Waveguide Lasers Could Surpass The Power Of Glass Fiber Lasers By 10 Times 8/19/2026

    At the bottom of the ocean, optical fibers transmit telecommunications and internet data across the world. Waveguides make that feat possible by channeling and amplifying the light — and therefore the data within — over enormous distances.

34. QTREX's Patent-Pending Technology Achieves First Direct Conversion Of 3D-Printed Insulation Into Graphene-Like Carbon To Protect Quantum Processors 8/19/2026

    QTREX Quantum Ltd. (Nasdaq: QTEX) ("QTREX" or the "Company"), a company focused on advancing Additively Manufactured Electronics (“AME”) for quantum computing infrastructure, today announced a patent-pending technology targeting one of quantum computing's recognized barriers to scale: stray radiation that breaks cooper pairs, generates quasiparticles, shortens qubit lifetimes and drives up error rates.

35. Two Materials, Double The Effect: Max Planck Scientists Develop Hybrid Photonic Chips Capable Of Converting Light Colors 8/19/2026

    Photonic chips are undergoing continuous miniaturization. Today’s components are small enough to fit on a fingernail, yet capable of generating, manipulating and measuring light.

36. Securing Wireless Communication In Next-Generation Devices 8/19/2026

    MIT researchers have overcome a major challenge holding back the real-world deployment of microwave quantum technologies for advanced signal processing and secure communications.

37. Towards The Goal Of Controlling Individual Electrons 8/18/2026

    Researchers at the University of Oldenburg’s Institute of Physics are working on techniques for precision control of electric fields of light, which allows the dynamics of individual electrons to be manipulated in experiments.

38. How To Generate High Harmonics With Quantum Light Despite Decoherence 8/18/2026

    The shortest light pulses to date are just a few attoseconds long. They are so much shorter than the blink of an eye that our brains have a difficult time trying to imagine them.

39. Vuzix Ships High-Bandwidth Optical Interconnect Solution For AI Data Centers 8/18/2026

    Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), a leading supplier of AI-powered smart glasses, waveguides and augmented reality technologies, today announced that it has begun shipping its first Causeway™ waveguide bridge samples to select prospective customers and ecosystem partners, and is making a broader optical interconnect evaluation kit available for AI data center optical interconnect applications, including co-packaged optics (CPO) architectures.

40. Researchers Harness UV-C Wavelengths To Advance Wireless Quantum Communication 8/18/2026

    Researchers have demonstrated the first wireless quantum key distribution (QKD) system operating in the ultraviolet-C (UV-C) spectral region.