AUCKLAND, New Zealand, June 27, 2024 — Quantifi Photonics, a photonics test and measurement company, has appointed co-founder Iannick Monfils as its CEO following the departure of fellow co-founder Andy Stevens. Stevens will continue to advise the executive team and remains a shareholder in the company. Iannick Monfils. Courtesy of Quantifi Photonics. Since co-founding Quantifi Photonics in 2012, Monfils has been responsible for leading the company’s engineering team and developing its product portfolio to includes

FARNBOROUGH, England, June 24, 2024 — BAE Systems and GlobalFoundries (GF) have established a partnership to strengthen the supply of critical semiconductors for national security programs. Under the agreement, the companies will collaborate on long-term strategies for increasing...

HEFEI, China, June 21, 2024 — A multifunctional three-terminal diode (TTD), developed by a team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), can function as both an optical emitter and a photodetector. The TTD boosts communication bandwidth significantly. It is...

ENSCHEDE, Netherlands, June 17, 2024 — Control of photon emission is essential for the stable, efficient management of single-photon sources for quantum information, miniaturized light sources, and numerous other applications. Researchers at the University of Twente (UT) demonstrated a...

AACHEN, Germany, June 13, 2024 — Graphene chip developer Black Semiconductor has raised €254.4 million (~$275.4 million) in funding. The startup is developing a method to build networks of graphene-based chips to speed network communications and facilitate optical chip-to-chip...

HSINCHU, Taiwan, June 12, 2024 — Himax Technologies, a fabless semiconductor solution provider, has made a $522 million NT ($16.1 million) investment in FOCI Fiber Optic Communications, Inc., a fiber optic components manufacturer, in private placement financing through its Taiwan...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 11, 2024 — At the crossroads of growing demand for fiber lasers and chip-scale lasers, researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have developed a chip-integrated erbium-doped waveguide laser that approaches the performance of...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 5, 2024 — Optical frequency combs have been transformational for metrology, spectroscopy, atomic clocks, and other applications, but their utility outside of lab and industrial settings has yet to be realized due to the difficulty of developing frequency comb...

Jun 3, 2024 — The visible range, spanning around 380 to 700 nm, has longstanding use in photonics. Many materials have specific absorption, reflection, and transmission characteristics in this band, which are exploited for applications from optical metrology and...

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, May 31, 2024 — The EU-funded Graphene-based All-Optical Technology Platform for Secure Internet of Things (GATEPOST) project has presented the first photonic integrated GATEPOST chip. Presented at a meeting of the project’s eight stakeholders at the EurA AG...

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, May 27, 2024 — ASML and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/Eindhoven) signed an agreement to expand their existing collaboration over the next ten years, with investment set to support semiconductor research as well as research and training in areas...

LEUVEN, Belgium, May 27, 2024 — In collaboration with partners CEA-Leti, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, VTT, CSSNT, and Tyndall Institute, imec will work with European and global equipment and material suppliers to establish the NanoIC pilot line. The pilot line seeks to develop beyond...

LEUVEN, Belgium, May 22, 2024 — Accurate detection of human cells is a key operation in modern medicine that is vital for the study of disease mechanisms and for the advancement of targeted and personalized treatments such as CAR-T immune cell therapy for cancer. As such,...

VALENCIA, Spain, May 6, 2024 — A team from the Photonics Research Laboratory (PRL)-iTEAM of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the company iPRONICS have developed a multifunctional, programmable photonic processor for applications in the...

HSINCHU SCIENCE PARK, Taiwan, April 30, 2024 — Taiwan Semiconductor Company (TSMC) has detailed three partnerships — one each with Ansys, Synopsys, and Cadence — to further develop its silicon photonics integration system capabilities. The collaborations serve to integrate various software...

BREUKELEN, Netherlands, April 16, 2024 — Deep tech venture capital firm PhotonVentures has raised more than €15 million ($15.9 million) in a funding round, bringing the fund’s total to its target of €75 million ($79 million). PhotonVentures, the investment arm of...

Apr 2, 2024 — On February 1, the biggest North American photonics convention concluded. It was busier than ever, at over 24,000 registered attendees. Guests once again enjoyed a great reunion for the photonics family, and, beyond a meet and greet for the...

Apr 2, 2024 — At a system architecture level, software-defined networking (SDN) has transformed data center management in the last decade, decoupling the control plane element from the data plane element. The flexibility in this design innovation enables dynamic...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 29, 2024 — Empire State Development has named the ten companies selected to participate in roun seven of the Luminate NY accelerator program, investment fund, and competition. Each finalist will receive an initial investment of $100,000 and will have the...

SAN DIEGO, March 27, 2024 — Coherent has established capability for 6-inch indium phosphide (InP) wafer fabrication in the company’s Sherman, Texas, and Järfälla, Sweden, wafer fabs. Coherent is in the process of qualifying several existing products on its...

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, March 26, 2024 — An updated roadmap developed by PhotonDelta and MIT’s Microphotonics Center envelopes insights from more than 400 organizations to provide a clear path forward for the global integrated photonics industry. The roadmap was launched today during the...

GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 26, 2024 — Devices that capture light from quantum dots, like chip-scale lasers and optical amplifiers, have made their way from the lab to the commercial market. The transition for newer quantum dot-based devices has been slower due to the extreme level of...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 22, 2024 — OpenLight, a developer and manufacturer of silicon photonic technology, has entered into a strategic partnership with Jabil to expedite manufacturing. The partnership is expected to allow OpenLight customers to fast-track the manufacturing and...

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, March 20, 2024 — EFFECT Photonics, a developer of integrated optical technologies, has secured $38 million in series D funding. The funding will be used to further accelerate the development and commercialization of EFFECT Photonics solutions and support ramping...

GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 15, 2024 — Many technologies — from communications, to radar and sensing, to positioning and navigation — rely on low-noise microwave signals for precise timing and synchronization. Advances in these technologies intensify the demand for stable,...