Current Headlines

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. TUM Develops Single-Photon Sources For Quantum Communication 8/18/2026

    Absolutely secure transmission of large amounts of data: Quantum communication promises many advantages over today’s standard technologies.

  7. Solar Cells And Quantum Technology Of The Future: LMU Researchers Embrace Perovskites 8/17/2026

    LMU researchers are using perovskite crystals as the basis for developing materials for tomorrow’s energy technology and optoelectronics.

  8. Global CEOs To Convene At Optica's Global Photonics Economic Forum As Early Bird Registration Enters Final Month 8/17/2026

    As photonics becomes increasingly critical to artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, aerospace and next-generation communications, more than 400 executives and decision-makers from around the world are expected to gather at the Global Photonics Economic Forum (GPEF) 2026, taking place 24–25 September in Málaga, Spain.

  9. Three Photons At Once Beat The Standard Photon Test 8/17/2026

    Physicists at the University of Twente have improved the standard test for the quality of individual particles of light.

  10. UNL Graduate Students Uncover Potential Breakthrough In Quantum Emitter Research 8/14/2026

    What began as a routine materials characterization project became something unprecedented when three University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate students discovered data that, by all accounts, should not have been possible.