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EUV Tech Opens Office in Singapore: Week In Brief: 9/26/25

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Sep 2025HOBOKEN, N.J., Sept. 26, 2025 — Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi), an integrated photonics and quantum optics company, closed its oversubscribed private placement for the purchase and sale of over 26 million shares of common stock. The offering resulted in gross proceeds of $500 million, before deducting offering expenses. The proceeds from the offer will be used to accelerate commercialization, strategic acquisitions, expand sales and engineering personnel, and enhance manufacturing capabilities.

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The EUV Tech Singapore Office. Courtesy of EUV Tech.

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MARTINEZ, Calif. — EUV Tech, a company that specializes in EUV metrology equipment, opened its first international office, in Singapore. This expansion is a strategic move toward integration into Asia’s semiconductor market. The office will hold EUV Tech’s international customer success team, focused on field service engineering. It will also be a EUV Tech’s regional hub for Asia, aimed at providing faster response times, enhanced service capabilities, and closer alignment with customers’ business hours.

MAYNARD, Mass. — Dutch photonics company EFFECT Photonics renamed its U.S. subsidiary Arycs Technologies. The rebrand is to reflect market readiness and clarify leadership alignment. As part of this transition, Roberto Marcoccia will step into the role of CEO of Arycs Technologies, focusing exclusively on leading the U.S. business.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — SPIE joined a coalition of more than 50 scientific societies in issuing a letter to the United States Congress. The letter expresses concerns over an executive order titled “Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking” from August. The letter urges Congress to provide necessary oversight to federal science agencies to prevent potentially significant damage to U.S. leadership in scientific and medical research. It further urges Congress to safeguard the integrity of the merit-based peer-review system and raises concerns over the expansion of “termination for convenience” authority. The letter supports the executive order’s goal of ensuring that grants are given to a broad range of recipients, but raises questions over how “repeat players” will be determined. The societies addressed the letter to congressional leadership and congressional committees with oversight of federal science agencies.

BRUSSELS — Microsanj, a metrology company specializing in thermal imaging and thermoreflectance technology, opened its European headquarters, in Brussels. The headquarters will enable the company to serve the European demand for advanced thermal metrology. Microsanj will launch a European-focused website to deliver region-specific support, educational content, and service information.

MILAN — PICs company Photon Path, and Telefónica, a telecommunications company, partnered to demonstrate the software-defined networking (SDN) interoperability of PhotonPath's C+L Optical Line System (OLS) integrated with Telefónica’s SDN controller. The collaboration featured PhotonPath's innovative C+L Optical Amplifier OLS, enabling the simultaneous amplification of both C and L bands within a single unit. This advance doubles transmission capacity, addressing the increasing reliance on data-intensive applications such as video streaming, cloud computing, and IoT devices, which is driving the demand for higher bandwidth and efficient data transmission solutions. PhotonPath’s OLS is also equipped with advanced optical channel monitoring technology, which provides high-resolution, real-time monitoring of optical channels. PhotonPath’s OLS was successfully identified by Telefónica’s SDN controller, demonstrating the capability to be remotely configured, including precise gain adjustments for both C and L bands and monitoring of individual channels. The system achieved error-free transmission across the entire C+L transmission channels.

FREMONT, Calif. — OIF concluded its Q3 2025 Technical and Market Awareness & Education committees meeting. During the meeting, members approved the launch of a white paper project and announced two implementation agreements (IAs). The CEI-112G-LINEAR-PAM4 IA defines a low-power, high-speed electrical interface for linear optics. An updated CMIS Versatile Control Set IA, builds on the existing Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS) standard for more dynamic and granular signal-integrity control for next-generation modules.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Accellix, a flow cytometry company, and Streck, which specializes in quality control materials for flow cytometry, hematology, and molecular diagnostics, announced a collaboration with the addition of the Accellix automated cell phenotyping platform to Streck’s CD-Chex Plus (RUO) control. The Accellix platform is a compact, automated flow cytometer for point-of-need environments. It uses single-use, microfluidic cartridges to automate the cell phenotyping process, from antibody staining to flow cytometry acquisition and data analysis. This enables rapid, reproducible results without the need for complex instrumentation or specialized operators. The CD-Chex Plus (RUO) control will allow users to assess the Accellix platform performance and ensure reliable operation. Users will be able to routinely monitor and maintain trust in their data without introducing complexity or requiring a separate or centralized lab infrastructure.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Open XR Optics Forum announced an update to the Open XR Optics Transceiver Optical and Client Interface Specification, introducing specifications that expand the Forum’s coherent pluggable ecosystem to include 100G modules and single-fiber bi-directional applications. The expansion broadens the applicability of XR optics technology, which brings the benefits of coherent point-to-point and point-to-multipoint architectures to an even wider set of access, aggregation, and transport network applications.

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Pieter Six, Momentum Global Ventures (left), and Bill Cohen, Current Chemicals. Courtesy of Momentum.

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AMSTERDAM — Investor Momentum Global Ventures backed the spin-off of Current Lighting’s chemical business. The transaction adds Current Lighting’s business under new ownership, together with its management team, led by Bill Cohen, and will see the business rebranded as Current Chemicals Inc. Through the investment, Momentum strengthens its global materials science portfolio and adds to its existing nanoscience company, Seaborough. By uniting Current Chemicals Inc. and Seaborough, Momentum combines expertise in luminescent materials, rare earth compounds, and nanotechnology. Combined with Seaborough’s EuroLED nano-phosphor technology, Current Chemicals Inc. is positioned to drive the industrial scaling of next-generation materials from lab to global production. The transaction is expected to close by the end of next month.

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The Saphlux & Vuzix collaboration will enable a compact optical component design for next-generation AI/AR glasses. Courtesy of Vuzix.

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Vuzix and TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology (TCL CSOT), a display panel manufacturer, announced a long-term partnership to integrate micro-LED displays and waveguide optics. The partnership aims to deliver integration-friendly, scalable, and cost-effective optical solutions for the smart glasses industry. The optical solution is powered by CL CSOT's micro-LED micro display technology. The two companies are delivering a complete modular solution to accelerate adoption by smart glasses OEMs and consumer brands. So far, the companies have integrated mono-green micro-LED engines with Vuzix waveguides, which are an off-the-shelf optical solution for ODM/OEM customers. The two companies are actively developing a full-color micro-LED and waveguide optical solution, with a planned release in early 2026. Vuzix additionally announced a collaboration with quantum dot micro-LED display company, Saphlux, to deliver a high-performance optical solution to accelerate the adoption of AI/AR glasses. Saphlux will supply its T1-0.13" mono-green micro-LED micro display with brightness, uniformity, and mass-production capability. Using this technology, Vuzix will incorporate this display with its waveguides and system design expertise. As part of their collaboration, the two companies will also co-develop a reference design display engine by the end of the year, including both a dual-eye mono-green retrofit and a single-eye mono-green model.More news & features