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51. Quantifi Photonics Is Now Part Of Teradyne 6/9/2025

    This significant milestone will enable the companies to deliver scalable photonic integrated circuit (PIC) test solutions designed to meet the fast-growing demand from photonics manufacturers.

52. GW Laser ABR Technology: Enabling New Energy, Cracking The Challenges Of Laser Processing Of Highly Anti-Reflective Materials 6/9/2025

    The new energy vehicle industry is leading the global green revolution with thunderous force.

53. Cobra-D For Ultra-Deep OCT Imaging 6/9/2025

    Wasatch Photonics has expanded its Cobra OCT spectrometer product line with an innovative design capable of achieving significantly greater imaging depth than other 800 nm OCT spectrometers.

54. Rethinking How Robots Move: Light And AI Drive Precise Motion In Soft Robotic Arm Developed At Rice 6/9/2025

    Researchers at Rice University have developed a soft robotic arm capable of performing complex tasks such as navigating around an obstacle or hitting a ball, guided and powered remotely by laser beams without any onboard electronics or wiring.

55. AI-Designed Waveguides Pave The Way For Next-Generation Photonic Devices 6/8/2025

    A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has introduced a novel framework for designing and creating universal diffractive waveguides that can control the flow of light in highly specific and complex ways.

56. IEEE Study Describes Polymer Waveguides For Reliable, High-Capacity Optical Communication 6/6/2025

    Co-packaged optics (CPO) technology can integrate photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with electronic integrated circuits like CPUs and GPUs on a single platform.

57. Demonstration Of Waveguide-Multiplexed Silicon Photonic Matrix Processor: Paving The Way For Massively Parallel Optical Computing For AI 6/6/2025

    Recent advances in generative AI have created a pressing need for next-generation computing technologies capable of processing massive volumes of data with both high speed and energy efficiency.

58. World's First Practical Surface-Emitting Laser For Optical Fiber Communications Developed: Advancing Miniaturization, Energy Efficiency, And Cost Reduction Of Light Sources 6/6/2025

    The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki Ph.D.), in collaboration with Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (Sony), has developed the world's first practical surface-emitting laser that employs quantum dot(QD) as the optical gain medium for use in optical fiber communication systems.

59. Oxford Physicists Recreate Extreme Quantum Vacuum Effects 6/5/2025

    Physicists at the University of Oxford have successfully simulated how light interacts with empty space – a phenomenon once thought to belong purely to the realm of science fiction.

60. Imec And Ghent University Present A Fully-Integrated, Single-Chip Microwave Photonics System For Compact And Versatile Signal Processing 6/5/2025

    This week, the Photonics Research Group and IDlab, two imec research groups at Ghent University, and imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, have published the demonstration of a fully-integrated single-chip microwave photonics system, combining optical and microwave signal processing on a single silico