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Integrated Photonics Drives New Advances In Optoelectronics

Integrated photonics, advanced wafer fabrication and specialist manufacturing services are helping accelerate efficient optical technologies for high-speed, low-power applications...

Three Research Teams Take Different Routes to Control Light

Papers from École Polytechnique, Seoul National University, and Harvard tackle optical gain, on-chip buffering, and component footprint.

Light Could Enable More Adaptable Future Electronic Systems

Researchers have developed an ultrathin semiconductor that can be repeatedly programmed, erased and reconfigured with light, pointing towards more adaptable electronic devices in t...

Flexible Photonic Chips Could Transform Curved Display Technology

MIT researchers have developed flexible, transparent silicon-photonics chips that could enable curved displays, wearable health monitors, and lighter optical systems for demanding...

Japan Moves to Commercializing Low-Power Optical Computing

Japanese companies are moving closer to commercializing photonics-electronics convergence technology that replaces part of conventional electrical data transmission with optical si...

Optocouplers Offer a Robust EMI Solution for Wide-Bandgap Power Designs

As high-voltage GaN and SiC devices push switching speeds higher, engineers face tougher electromagnetic interference challenges. New optocoupler designs could provide stronger iso...

Bi-Directional Li-Fi Optical Communication System

A bi-directional Li-Fi (light fidelity) optical communication system has been developed for high-speed, two-way digital data transfer over free-space optical links. Using laser dio...

Solution-Processed Laser Advances Polariton Research

Can lasers be made without complex fabrication? A fully solution-processed device shows how light and matter can work together. Researchers at the University of Turku in Finland ha...

Single-Chip Comb Laser Targets Faster Optical Data Interconnects

A new comb laser could simplify optical connectivity, cut power use and reduce data movement for AI-focused datacentre interconnect applications across emerging systems worldwide....

Ge/SiGe Quantum-Well Photodetectors Integrated with SiN Waveguides on 200-mm Silicon Wafers

A new approach to building faster, more compact optical sensors could help push silicon photonics beyond the limits of conventional semiconductor platforms. In a study published in...

IEEE study highlights cryogenic VCSELs for high-speed optical interconnects

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated that cryogenic vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (cryo-VCSELs) could provide a more energy-effici...

Fabrication platform could enable flexible, transparent next-generation photonic chips

The field of silicon photonics, which uses light rather than electricity to transmit and process data on semiconductor chips, has enabled optical systems to evolve from bulky setup...

Semicon to put spotlight on CPO, silicon photonics

New Semiconductor Device Turns Light Into a Directed Current

The light-controlled electron current could open new paths for sensing, telecommunications, and other advanced technologies. A pair of laser beams can now send electrons through a...

Programmable photonic chip could unlock light-speed optical computing

Australia Opens Photonic Chip Packaging Facility

How do photonic chips move beyond the laboratory? A new facility in Queensland will help researchers package and test them for practical applications. CSIRO has opened the Queensla...

Just 27 Centimeters Could Dramatically Reduce Power Consumption

A new generation of optoelectronic integration technology developed over four decades by Japanese companies is moving closer to commercialization, offering a way to transmit huge v...

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Enable Photonic IC Design on InP-on-Silicon Platform

Insider Brief Press release – OpenLight, a leader in heterogeneous III‑V‑on‑silicon photonic integration and custom Photonic Application‑Specific Integrated Circuits (PASICs), and ...

Shaping light like never before with photonic time crystals

This discovery paves the way for ultrafast optical computing, new telecommunication systems and eventually new types of terahertz lasers.

GPD Optoelectronics Positions Germanium and InGaAs Photodiodes Around Fit-for-Purpose Detection in AI Data Center Optica...

As AI clusters push more data across fiber, GPD frames photodetection as a material-selection challenge across monitoring, aliment, testing and high-speed optical links - not a one...

Silicon Photonics Advances Multi-Qubit Quantum Computing

Can a silicon chip handle complex quantum states without relying on conventional multi-photon resources? A programmable photonic approach offers another route. Sizhen Chip Technolo...

The 4N35: One LED, One Phototransistor, and a Barrier Nothing Crosses

An LED facing a phototransistor inside a 6-pin package became the default way to pass a signal across a barrier while blocking everything else.

Light-based digital memory moves photonic computing toward gigabit-scale storage

An all-optical memory stores digital data in circulating light for over 20 ms, using Raman amplification and multiple wavelengths to boost capacity.

Feed-Forward Photonic Meshes Enable Programmable Optical Filters

A new generation of optical filters could make advanced communications systems faster, more adaptable and far less dependent on fixed hardware. Researchers have reported programmab...