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Innovative Optical Lithography Advances High-Resolution Semiconductor Laser Production Innovative Optical Lithography Advances High-Resolution Semiconductor Laser Production The rapid advancement of AI, driven by large-language models, is creating unprecedented demand for computational power. This surge has in turn placed tremendous pressure on the underlying physical hardware, such as optical communication modules in data centers. Within these modules, semiconductor lasers such as distributed feedback (DFB) lasers and VCSELs are fundamental components. The...
Image Sensor Design Innovation Shines When the Lights Go Down Image Sensor Design Innovation Shines When the Lights Go Down Speed is of the utmost importance for many imaging and machine vision tasks. This metric is often used in the context of image capture rates and acquisition times. For a range of applications,...
Polymer Optics Reveal That Discounting Aspheres Comes at a Cost Polymer Optics Reveal That Discounting Aspheres Comes at a Cost For centuries, the sphere has been the most widely used optical surface. This is due largely to the fact that traditional grinding and polishing techniques leverage the property that spheres fit...
Amid the Drive to Improve Automotive Safety, Thermal Imager Design Innovation Soars Amid the Drive to Improve Automotive Safety, Thermal Imager Design Innovation Soars The use of thermal imaging in defense operations traces back more than 50 years. In the late 1960s, the earliest iterations of thermal imagers deployed in this sector used cryogenically cooled image...
High-Speed Segmented MEMS for Large- Aperture Optical Switching High-Speed Segmented MEMS for Large- Aperture Optical Switching The term “light valve” refers to a device that can be used to control many individual beams of light from a single illumination source. As an enabling component for a range of both...
Editorial
Photonics breaks through the headwinds Photonics breaks through the headwinds As 2026 approaches, “uncertainty” remains the inescapable sensation. For all that 2025 has brought — sweeping cuts to research budgets, global disruptions to supply chains, and lagging sales in key industry sectors have become the certainties this year — and the familiar feeling that has lingered throughout the year persists. There is no way to know when the climate of...
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Photonics West Prepares for 2026 Showcase Photonics West Prepares for 2026 Showcase Photonics West 2026, to be held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, will return for its 31st year, kicking off Jan. 17 and wrapping up Jan. 22. The event will feature 4000 technical presentations, and organizers expect more than 1500 exhibiting companies from around the world. Visitors will be able to explore the long-standing BiOS Expo and Photonics West Exhibition, as well as the Quantum...
Photonic Fundamentals
Cleaning Laser Optics: Handling, Techniques, and Best Practices Cleaning Laser Optics: Handling, Techniques, and Best Practices Cleaning optical components is about more than maintaining aesthetics. In high-precision systems, particularly those involving lasers, even minor contamination of the optics can lead to component failure. While contaminants — either on a coating or at the interface with the substrate — can absorb laser energy and degrade the coating or substrate surface, the presence of dust, streaks,...
Technology News
Lipson Team Develops Microcomb Source On-Chip for Data Centers Lipson Team Develops Microcomb Source On-Chip for Data Centers Researchers from Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a method to create a high-power frequency comb that avoids the need for large and expensive lasers and...
USC Team Holds Key to Universal Routing of Light USC Team Holds Key to Universal Routing of Light In nonlinear, multimode optical environments, light is typically too chaotic to be routed in a predictive way. Conventional optical routers require complex arrays of switches and electronic controls...
Caltech Research Enables Spectral Broadening On-Chip Caltech Research Enables Spectral Broadening On-Chip Broadband, coherent light sources are highly valued in research and development, but until now, they have been difficult to achieve without bulky, inefficient tabletop devices. A Caltech team led by...
Light-Powered Gears Drive Chip-Size Motors Light-Powered Gears Drive Chip-Size Motors Downsizing the gears and micromotors used in devices could help reduce their footprints. But efforts to do so have been hampered by the challenges of constructing drive trains for the gears at scales...
Pinhole Camera Offers Imaging for MIR Wavelengths Pinhole Camera Offers Imaging for MIR Wavelengths An ancient, lens-free imaging technique provides the basis for a new mid-infrared (MIR) camera that can capture clear, wide-depth images over long distances, even under low light. The camera uses...
Light-Based Chip Boosts AI Power Efficiency hundredfold Light-Based Chip Boosts AI Power Efficiency hundredfold Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly central to technology, powering everything from facial recognition to language translation. But as AI models grow more complex, they consume vast...
Industry News
AI-Powered Spectral Intelligence Firm Closes $7M Capital Round HyperSpectral, an AI-powered spectral intelligence company, has closed a $7 million funding round. The company said it plans to use the funding to expand partnerships, fuel accelerated development,...
TiHive Raises $9.3M to Advance Terahertz-AI Vision TiHive Raises $9.3M to Advance Terahertz-AI Vision TiHive, a deeptech company focused on Terahertz-AI vision systems, has raised €8 million ($9.3 million) to accelerate growth and expand internationally. The company’s technology combines...
Industry Leaders Invest in Monroe Community College Industry Leaders Invest in Monroe Community College Monroe Community College (MCC) in Rochester, N.Y. has received three philanthropic investments, supporting the nation’s first associate degree program in optical systems technology awarded by a...
PINC Technologies Emerges from Stealth PINC Technologies Emerges from Stealth PINC Technologies, a Caltech Nonlinear Photonics Laboratory spinout developing advanced integrated nonlinear photonic devices and circuits, has emerged from stealth with a raised-total of $6.8...
Credo Expands Portfolio, Acquires Hyperlume Credo, which provides high-speed connectivity solutions, acquired Hyperlume, a developer of microLED-based optical interconnect technology for chip-to-chip communication. Through this acquisition,...
Photon IP Rebrands as Photon Bridge, Names CEO Photon IP, a manufacturer of advanced low-power optical chips, has rebranded as Photon Bridge. The company also named Paul Marchal as CEO. Photon Bridge’s cantilever waveguide coupling...
PicoQuant Invests in Microscopy Startup FluoBrick Solutions PicoQuant Invests in Microscopy Startup FluoBrick Solutions PicoQuant, a photonic components and instruments manufacturer, invested in FluoBrick Solutions, a startup specializing in single-molecule techniques. FluoBrick Solutions develops ready-to-use...
Ciena to Acquire Nubis Communications for $270M Telecommunications company Ciena has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nubis Communications, which specializes in high-performance, ultra-compact, low-power optical and electrical...
Vitrealab, Brilliance Collaborate to Advance AR Tech Vitrealab, Brilliance Collaborate to Advance AR Tech Vitrealab GmbH, a photonics integrated circuit developer for laser–LCoS-based AR light engines, and Brilliance B.V., a laser chip manufacturing company, partnered to find more approaches in...
La Luce Cristallina Advances Barium Titanate Technology La Luce Cristallina has launched its 200-mm barium titanate (BaTiO3) wafer and opened a state-of-the-art fabrication facility in Austin. The facility expands capacity for wafer-scale fabrication of...
Newly Formed EvolvOptic Acquires DiMaxx Technologies EvolvOptic, an optics company formed through the merger of Advanced Glass Industries and Glass Fab Inc. earlier this year, has completed the acquisition of DiMaxx Technologies, a California-based...
Siemens and TRUMPF Partner on AI for Manufacturing Siemens and TRUMPF Partner on AI for Manufacturing Siemens and TRUMPF have established a partnership to elevate industrial production by harnessing advanced digital manufacturing solutions. The collaboration reportedly joins Siemens’ Xcelerator...
Lighter Side
Avoca-don’t worry about food rot! Avoca-don’t worry about food rot! Searching for the perfect avocado at the grocery store is an acquired skill. You might think you picked the perfect avocado, only to bring it home and find out it is not close to ripe, or, even worse, that it is rotten to the core. This blunder is more than just one’s own personal produce tragedy. Unripe avocados contribute to food waste, with overripe avocados accounting for ~40% of global...
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Uncooled Thermal Cores Crius XP from Exosens is a series of high-resolution uncooled thermal cores for vision systems operating in any condition; the products support the detection, recognition, and identification of...
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