Imagine walking into an airport or grocery store and your smart phone automatically starts charging. This could be a reality one day, thanks to a new wireless laser charging system that overcomes some ...

Enlightra, a Swiss-American "deep-tech" startup building chip-scale multi-wavelength lasers for next-generation data transmission, has announced it has raised a total of $15 million in funding. The ...

Quebec City startup Femtum has developed mid-infrared fiber lasers that are expected to find employment in the production of silicon photonics PICs and co-packaged optics needed for next-generation ...

The semiconductor equipment giant ASML and electronics research center imec have opened a joint laboratory dedicated to high-numerical aperture (high-NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, seen by ...

ASML, the world's dominant supplier of semiconductor lithography systems and a key player in the technology economy, says it is too early to quantify the impact that US import tariffs will have on its ...

Coherent has sold its gallium arsenide (GaAs) wafer fabrication facility in the north of England to the UK government, for a reported £20 milllion. The decision by the photonics giant, which had used ...

Optics giant Zeiss and the major automotive parts supplier Hyundai Mobis are joining forces on the development of new holographic displays for cars - including a panoramic version extending right ...

CCRAFT, the thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic chip foundry recently spun out of Switzerland's Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM), says that major semiconductor wafer ...

Invisix Measuring Systems, a Netherlands-based startup established by an ASML team working on a new way to inspect semiconductor structures using soft X-ray light, has raised €20 million in a round of ...

Engineers from NASA are to test a suite of new laser technologies from an aircraft this summer for Earth science remote sensing. The lidar instruments could also be used to improve models of the ...

California-based photonics giant Lumentum says that it is investing heavily in indium phosphide (InP) manufacturing capacity, to ensure that supply can meet the expected surge in demand over the next ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) computing giant Nvidia has announced details of how it is adopting silicon photonics and co-packaged optics (CPO) technology to deliver massive scaling in AI architecture ...