Current Headlines

81. Quantum Entanglement Generated By Sunlight For The First Time 8/5/2026

    Scientists have demonstrated that sunlight, as a natural light source, can generate quantum-entangled photon pairs.

82. IonQ And Sandia National Laboratories Sign MOU To Accelerate Quantum Co-Design For National Security Applications 8/4/2026

    IonQ, a leading quantum platform company, today announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Sandia National Laboratories, to explore accelerated co-design of quantum information science technologies in support of U.S. national security innovation.

83. Quantum Corridor, Ciena, And Toshiba Complete World's First 1.6 Tb/s Quantum-Safe Optical Encryption Milestone On Live Commercial Network 8/4/2026

    Quantum Corridor, Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) and Toshiba have completed a successful trial of high-speed quantum-safe networking on Quantum Corridor’s live commercial network in the Midwest United States.

84. A Breakthrough In Light Control 8/4/2026

    Light travels at extraordinary speed, yet the devices used to direct and manipulate it remain comparatively slow. What if light itself could be steered almost instantaneously—without moving mirrors, lenses, or mechanical components?

85. CREOL Research Explores How Partially Coherent Light Could Transform Optical Communications 8/4/2026

    Featured on the cover of Optics & Photonics News, the article highlights how an emerging approach called structured coherence could improve optical communications, computing, and information processing.

86. QuiX Quantum Launches Alquor 2.0 To Accelerate Photonic Quantum Research Beyond The Optical Table 8/4/2026

    QuiX Quantum today announced the commercial availability of Alquor 2.0, the next generation of its rack-mountable quantum photonic processor platform, available in 8-mode, 20-mode and 32-mode configurations, for advanced quantum optics, quantum communication, boson sampling, quantum information processing, and photonic quantum computing research.

87. Aehr Test Systems Expands Silicon Photonics Production Momentum With Follow-On Production Order From Lead Customer 8/4/2026

    Aehr Test Systems, a leading provider of test and burn-in solutions for semiconductor devices used in artificial intelligence (AI), silicon photonics, data center, automotive, and industrial applications, today announced it has received a follow-on production order from its lead silicon photonics wafer-level burn-in (WLBI) customer for a fully automated FOX-XP multi-wafer production burn-in system to support the continued expansion of the customer’s manufacturing capacity for next-generation silicon photonic integrated circuits.

88. Zooming In: Electron Orbitals Photographed In 3D 8/4/2026

    One of the most famous and intriguing results of quantum mechanics is the finding that fundamental particles, such as electrons, cannot be pinned down to one single location.

89. IonQ And EPB Partner To Launch The Tennessee Quantum Communications Research Center 8/3/2026

    IonQ, Inc., the world’s leading quantum platform company, and EPB, Chattanooga’s energy and communications solutions company, today announced plans for the Tennessee Quantum Communications Research Center.

90. New Mechanism For Channeling Of Light Discovered 8/3/2026

    Researchers from the 4^th Physics Institute of the University of Stuttgart and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Milan have demonstrated a new mechanism for directing light in a naturally hyperbolic van der Waals material without the need for conventional nanofabricated waveguides.