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MILITARY & DEFENSE NEWS
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Silicon Photonics Tackles AI's Data Bottleneck
Silicon photonics transceivers now exceed 1.6 Tbps using wavelength multiplexing, while co-packaged optics promise 70% power savings for AI workloads.
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Holoporting To And From Space: The Future Of Cosmic Communication
Holoportation technology enables real-time 3D communication between Earth and space, allowing medical professionals and others to virtually visit astronauts aboard the International Space Station while promising revolutionary applications for future Mars missions.
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Quantum Teleportation Between Quantum Dots: Paving The Way For The Quantum Internet
Researchers have achieved quantum teleportation between photons from different quantum dots, marking a key milestone for a solid-state quantum internet and long-distance photonic networks.
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AI, Quantum, And Materials Innovation: How 2025 Set The Stage For Photonics In 2026
Photonics surged in 2025 through telecom, AI, and health advances. In 2026, AI-driven design, quantum sources, thin films, and sustainability lead the next innovation wave.
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Your Guide To Photonics West 2026: Conferences, Exhibits & Networking In San Francisco
Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco offers technical conferences, courses, and a major photonics exhibition, plus networking and career events for optics professionals.
MILITARY & DEFENSE VIDEOS
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Discover how Zygo's precision and reliability support mission-critical aerospace and defense applications with ruggedized optical components and market-leading metrology technology.
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Telops has responded to the request of their customers for a smaller version of their Hyper-Cam hyperspectral camera and has miniaturized it enough so that it can be integrated into smaller systems and packages.
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Craig Taylor with Qioptiq, an Excelitas Technologies Company spent some time with us on day two of the DSS exhibition to give us an overview of some of his division’s work in optical modules and systems used in the aerospace and defense markets. He then turns it over to Eric Desfonds with Excelitas so he could catch us up on some of their more recent product developments, including their newly launched N-type quadrant detectors.
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In this video, Precision Optics Corp president Joe Forkey gives us a brief overview of his company and then gives us a closer look at some of the things they featured at their Photonics West booth.
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In this video, Jim Hooker, from L-3 Applied Optics Center, gives us an overview of his company and their capabilities.
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Eric Desfonds with Excelitas runs us through their offerings displayed at SPIE DSS 2013.
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George Murray, sales manager at Inrad Optics, walks us through his company’s array of non-linear crystals for q-switches and frequency doubling devices, solar blind filters for early warning missile detection, and much more.