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Photonic computing company iPronics has raised €20 million ($20.8 million) in a series A funding round. The funds will help accelerate deployment of the company’s Optical Networking Engine...

Research hub imec has demonstrated the monolithic fabrication of electrically-driven gallium arsenide (GaAs)-based multi-quantum-well nano-ridge laser diodes on 300mm silicon wafers in its CMOS pilot...

Researchers at Chalmers University have developed a method to make microcombs 10 times more efficient, opening pathways to discovery in space and health care, and paving the way for high-performance...

The optical, lasing, and waveguiding capabilities of perovskite make this material a promising platform for integrated photonic circuits for classical and quantum signal processing. A research...

The Q.ANT NPU from Q.ANT is a photonics-based native processing unit (NPU) built on the company’s light empowered native arithmetic (LENA) compute architecture. The NPU can train and achieve...

The VPIdeviceDesigner version 2.7 from VPIphotonics is a simulation framework for analyzing and optimizing optical devices, waveguides, and fibers for integrated photonics applications. The design...

The QSFP OCM (optical channel monitor) from PhotonPath, in collaboration with Jabil, is a pluggable optical channel monitor on a quad small form factor pluggable (QSFP) form factor created as a...

The QD m.0 from QuantumDiamonds GmbH is a quantum based device designed for semiconductor chip failure analysis. The system utilizes diamond-based quantum microscopy to detect and localize faults in...

Silicon photonics is widely considered a key enabling technology for further development of optical interconnect solutions needed to address growing traffic on the internet. From the first submarine...

Manufacturing the laser diode is complicated by the existence of multiple proprietary techniques and intellectual property barriers together with complex device physics and unique materials. ...

The term fluorescence is often applied as a synonym for photoluminescence, although luminescence actually covers fluorescence and phosphorescence. Both of these terms describe the process of...

Materials processing with lasers is actually a broad term for a diverse range of applications. The major categories of these uses, and the lasers that service them, are summarized Table 1. At one...

This application note demonstrates the use of ATR-FTIR spectroscopy for the analysis of human serum albumin. An IR5 FTIR spectrometer was used, equipped with a heated ATR accessory, to help tackle...

Realizing photonic quantum technologies, such as an optical quantum computer or a quantum communication link between distant superconducting qubits, will require the development of novel photonic...

Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) are becoming increasingly important in many areas, including communications, remote sensing, and medical applications. Designers active in this field rely on...

This eSeminar, presented by CST, will show you how to use CST STUDIO SUITE® to simulate the design of Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs). It will demonstrate the complete workflow to analyze...

We’re currently living in a technological revolution driven by the integration of photonic and electronic components into monolithic devices that, in turn, are enabling a growing number of...

Integrated photonics is a field of study and technology that involves the integration of optical components, such as lasers, modulators, detectors, and waveguides, on a single chip or substrate. The...

Nonlinear polarization refers to the phenomenon where the polarization of a material responds nonlinearly to an applied electric field. In linear systems, the polarization of a material is directly...

In photonics, a slot modulator refers to a type of optical modulator that operates based on the principle of modifying the optical properties of a slot waveguide. A slot modulator is an optical...

A micro-ring resonator is a compact optical device that utilizes the resonant behavior of light within a small ring-shaped waveguide structure to selectively enhance or filter certain wavelengths of...

A research team in Zurich breaks an ultrashort-pulse laser record. The ETH Zurich team lead by Ursula Keller is behind that breakthrough. PhotonDelta launches a PIC-based contest that could land one...

Lawmakers in Washington will set aside nearly $3B for quantum technology development. The U.S. and China continue to exchange blows in an ongoing trade dispute around photonics technologies. A $56m...

A number of photonics innovations dominated the tech at CES 2025 including AI systems from NVIDIA and autonomous machines from John Deere. SPIE names 47 fellows of the society and gives out some big...

2024 was packed with big business headlines, powerful team-ups, changes of leadership for leading organizations, and life-changing breakthroughs. But before we recap the year's top headlines,...

A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is a compact and integrated device that incorporates multiple photonic components and functions on a single chip, similar to the way electronic integrated circuits...

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