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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...

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...

Programmable photonic chip could unlock light-speed optical computing

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.

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.

‘Photonic multi-lane highway’ enjoys insulator-free topological protection

New technology uses a photonic valley half-semimetal The post ‘Photonic multi-lane highway’ enjoys insulator-free topological protection appeared first on Physics World.

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...

New mechanism for channeling of light discovered

The discovery opens up new possibilities for integrated photonics, optical signal transmission on chips and future quantum technologies.

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.

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...

IEEE Study Highlights How Micro-Transfer Printing Can Lead to Advanced Silicon Photonics

Insider Brief Press release – Silicon photonics has emerged as a promising technology for addressing bandwidth and latency bottlenecks of conventional electrical interconnects and...

Photonic Quantum Technology Companies in 2026

Insider Brief Most quantum computers rely on extreme cooling to keep their qubits stable. Photonic quantum computers take a different route by using photons, particles of light, as...

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 ...

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...

New device design could miniaturize photonics, quantum technologies

Researchers co-design engineered semiconductors and metasurfaces to build powerful optical device.

Semicon to put spotlight on CPO, silicon photonics

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...

Scientists Turn an Overlooked Chip Layer Into a Powerful New Light Source

A layer once dismissed as mere support has transformed a tiny photonic chip into a powerful generator of new light frequencies. A laser usually produces one narrow color of light....

Photonics and optics: This AI-linked group is easily beating the rest of the market. How to trade it

Photonics stocks have collectively doubled their value over the past year, and they've still got steam thanks to AI. Here's how to play the winning theme.

Hybrid photonic chip turns two materials into one broadband light source

Hybrid photonic chip combines Raman scattering and Kerr frequency comb generation in separate materials, creating new light-generation capabilities.

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...

Topological Jackiw-Rebbi States in Photonic Van der Waals Heterostructures

A new study is turning an elegant quantum idea into a practical platform for light. In research published in Light: Science & Applications, physicists report “topological Jacki...

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...

Nanopositioning, customization and control: opening new frontiers in optical computing

SmarAct and Akhetonics have developed a test platform for next-generation optical processors The post Nanopositioning, customization and control: opening new frontiers in optical c...