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31. Hakusan Inc. Concludes Agreement With SANWA Technologies And US Conec On Multi-Sourcing Of Very Small Form Factor And Related Components 2/18/2026

    Next generation, hyperscale data center architectures have migrated away from traditional MPO cabling infrastructure to the higher density, enhanced functionality, rapid deployment, and improved performance of the MMC connector platform.

32. Cisco Orchestrates Qunnect's Quantum Network Trial 2/18/2026

    Cisco inserted itself into a quantum networking trial with Qunnect that integrated the former’s enterprise-grade orchestration software operating across Qunnect’s deployed telecom fiber running under New York City.

33. CEA Demonstrates First Dynamically Routed Electro-Optical Router For Photonic Interposers 2/18/2026

    Researchers from CEA-List and CEA-Leti today unveiled at ISSCC the first electro-optical router with dynamic, frame-level optical routing integrated with CMOS control logic, marking a major step toward practical optical networking inside advanced chiplet-based packages.

34. Tower Semiconductor And Scintil Photonics Announce Availability Of World's First Heterogeneously Integrated DWDM Lasers For AI Infrastructure 2/17/2026

    Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM), the leading foundry for high-value analog semiconductor solutions, and Scintil Photonics, the technology leader in Heterogeneous Integrated Photonics for next-generation AI infrastructure, today announced availability of the world’s first heterogeneously integrated Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) laser sources for AI infrastructure using Scintil’s SHIP™ (Scintil Heterogeneous Integrated Photonics) technology.

35. Fraunhofer ISE Achieves Record Efficiencies For Tandem Photovoltaic Modules 2/17/2026

    Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE have succeeded in constructing two tandem photovoltaic modules with record efficiencies.

36. uOttawa Researchers Develop Better Framework To Understand Laser-Matter Interactions 2/17/2026

    A team of physicists from the University of Ottawa have developed a new theoretical model that shines new light on how scientists understand the way lasers interact with dense matter, such as solids and liquids.

37. Less Noise, More Gain For Quantum Computers 2/17/2026

    The low-noise, high-gain properties needed for high-performance quantum computing can be realized in a microwave photonic circuit device called a Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier (JTWPA), RIKEN researchers have shown experimentally¹.

38. A 'Smart Fluid' You Can Reconfigure With Temperature 2/17/2026

    Imagine a “smart fluid” whose internal structure can be rearranged just by changing temperature.

39. Microscopic Mirrors For Future Quantum Networks 2/17/2026

    Researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have devised a new way to make some of the smallest, smoothest mirrors ever created for controlling single particles of light, known as photons.

40. Quantum Sensor Research Advances Dark Matter Pursuit 2/16/2026

    Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping to pave a path for the eventual discovery of dark matter.