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  1. Uviquity Announces The World's First Chip-Scale Deep-UV Laser At 229 nm 5/7/2026

    Uviquity, a deep-tech company developing integrated photonics for ultraviolet wavelengths, today announced its first product: a chip-scale laser operating at 229 nm.

  2. Physicist Burak Guzelturk Turns Laser Pulses Into Breakthroughs At The Advanced Photon Source 5/6/2026

    Physicist Burak Guzelturk grew up in a small industrial town on Turkey’s west coast, where a large petrochemical plant was a major local employer. Conversations with his father’s friends, some of whom were chemists and physicists, sparked his early interest in science.

  3. New InSb Quantum Dot Synthesis To Detect Infrared Light 5/6/2026

    Quantum dots, tiny semiconductors that behave like a single atom, can absorb and emit light at different wavelengths depending on their size (the larger the dots, the longer the wavelength).

  4. Of The Geometry Of Light 5/6/2026

    Quantum geometry is a mathematical tool that describes how quantum states change with the parameters of a system.

  5. Antaris And Transcelestial Sign Agreement To Advance Persistent ISR And Optical Communications Architecture In LEO 5/6/2026

    Antaris, the AI-powered platform for the design, simulation, manufacturing, and operation of satellite constellations, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with Transcelestial to jointly develop and demonstrate a persistent Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) architecture integrated with high-throughput optical communications in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

  6. Casimir Forces In Twisted Anisotropic Gratings: A Path To Self-Tuning Nanophotonic Systems 5/6/2026

    A team of scientists from Skoltech (part of the VEB.RF Group) and MIPT has investigated how the Casimir effect can be used to precisely control the angular orientation of nanostructures.

  7. Gemtek Announces AiPhoton™ Transceiver Targeting Hyperscale AI Data Centers Based On NewPhotonics® 1.6T NPG10204 PIC With Integrated Laser 5/6/2026

    Gemtek Technology Company Ltd, a global leader in advanced networking solutions, today announced the AiPhoton 1.6T OSFP transceiver.

  8. Veeco Announces $250M+ In Equipment Orders For Manufacturing Indium Phosphide Lasers 5/5/2026

    Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO) today announced that it received orders totaling more than $250 million from multiple customers for its Spector® Ion Beam Deposition (IBD), Lumina® Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) and its WaferEtch® Wet Processing systems.

  9. Xanadu And EV Group Partner To Build Industrial-Scale Photonic Quantum Hardware 5/5/2026

    Xanadu Quantum Technologies Ltd. ("Xanadu") (NASDAQ: XNDU) (TSX: XNDU), a leading photonic quantum computing company, and EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment, today announced a strategic partnership to develop critical heterogeneous integration and wafer bonding processes to facilitate the scalability of photonic quantum systems. 

  10. ANELLO Photonics Secures Additional $25M To Accelerate Production Of Its GPS-Denied Navigation Solutions 5/4/2026

    ANELLO Photonics, the creator of the Silicon Photonics Optical Gyroscope (SiPhOG™) and a leader in solid-state, high-precision inertial navigation systems, today announced it has secured an additional $25 million in a Series B-2 financing round.