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Weekly News: SPIE adds the AR Alliance, Scientists Achieve Color Converting Chips (11/20/2025)

Weekly News: SPIE adds the AR Alliance, Scientists Achieve Color Converting Chips

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Thursday, November 20, 2025

Weekly News

Color Converting Chips Could Solve a Long-Standing Problem, SPIE adds the AR Alliance

GlobalFoundries continues its streak of adding new acquisitions and collaborations to enhance work done on silicon photonics. A milestone for the AR industry as SPIE adds the AR Alliance as its newest division. And researchers from the Joint Quantum Institute solve a long-standing problem with a new photonic chip that can turn one wavelength into a rainbow of different colors.

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Using Passive Approach, Scientists Achieve Color Converting Chips

Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute designed and tested chips that convert one color of light into a rainbow of additional colors, which is useful for building quantum computers and precision measurements of frequency or time. Generating the frequency of light on a chip saves the space and energy that would normally be taken up by additional lasers. Read Article

Integrated Laser Developer PicoJool Emerges from Stealth with $12M

PicoJool, an optical connectivity company, emerged from stealth with $12 million in funding led by Playground Global. The company said it has developed a new class of pixel-level photonics to make optical links as inexpensive, compact, and manufacturable as traditional copper connections. Read Article

Scattered Light Imaging Can Map Tissue Fibers at Micron Resolution

The billions of nerve fibers in the brain form a dense network that controls neuronal function and connectivity. The degeneration of these fiber networks causes disruptions in neural connectivity, leading to neurological disorders. Read Article

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