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 ...

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 ...

Established as a provider of high-end lasers and laser rack systems, Toptica has this week announced at LASER world of Photonics that is offering its first complete quantum technology solution: a ...

SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2024 (SPIE DCS), taking place between 21-25 April 2024 in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S.A., offers an opportunity for learning about sensing technologies being ...

Hydrogel-treated wounds. Credit: Duke University/Cell Biomaterials. A team at Duke University working in collaboration with Nokia Bell Labs has gained new insights into how wounds heal. Monitoring ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opticore, a new photonic computing company, has this week announced its official launch and initial funding. The Fremont, California-based startup says it is aiming "to revolutionize data centers and ...

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 ...

A renewed period of demand growth for CMOS imaging sensors is set to drive the global market to a value of $30 billion by 2030. That prediction comes from analysts at the France-based technology ...