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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...

UMC starts mass production of silicon photonics wafers in Singapore

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...

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 Integration Moves Chip Towards Petabit-Speed

New optical couplers could simplify photonic chip integration while enabling faster, more energy-efficient data transmission. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo...

New study highlights how micro-transfer printing can lead to advanced silicon photonics

Micro-transfer printing can enable heterogenous integration of diverse material systems in silicon photonics.

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 ...

Algorithm-designed photonic circuits beyond human intuition

Researchers used an inverse-design algorithm to create silicon nitride photonic components that are 500 times smaller than conventional designs. The research could pave the way for...

Programmable photonic chip could unlock light-speed optical computing

Uncle Sam sees the light, offers GlobalFoundries $300M to pursue silicon photonics while taking 1% stake

Meanwhile, the other state-backed foundry, Intel, wraps up RAMP-C defense test chip program

Wave Photonics Adds Synopsys OptoCompiler Support for Its PDK Platform

Insider Brief Press release – Wave Photonics announced that, as of today, all the PDKs developed or managed by Wave Photonics through the PDK management platform are now compatible...

SmartCore Secures Millions in Funding for Silicon Photonics AI Chip Interconnect Breakthrough

Tsinghua-founded silicon photonics startup SmartCore raises angel++ round to advance optical I/O chiplet technology for AI computing clusters.

Guest Post: The Role of Silicon Photonics in Delivering Usable Quantum Computing

Guest post by Professor Callum Littlejohns, Deputy Director at CORNERSTONE, and Dr Amit Agrawal, Associate Professor in Optical Engineering at the University of Cambridge The abili...

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.

Silicon Photonics Investment Is Ramping Fast as AI Clusters Outgrow Copper Wiring. 2 AI Stocks Stand to Win.

As AI data centers outgrow copper networking, these two optical technology companies could become major beneficiaries of the industry's shift to silicon photonics.

QuiX Quantum Commercializes Alquor 2.0 Programmable Photonic Processor Platform

Enschede, Netherlands-based hardware developer QuiX Quantum has announced the commercial availability of Alquor 2.0, the second generation of its rack-mountable quantum photonic pr...

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.

New programmable photonic chip can control how fast light moves

Scientists have created a programmable optical chip that can slow light on demand, giving engineers far greater control over how optical signals propagate through a circuit. The te...

Optical Computing Reaches Commercialization Inflection Point: Lightelligence PACE 3 Photonic Chip With 256x256 Matrix, F...

Lightelligence demonstrates first real-world deployed photonic computing at WAIC with Tianshu Light Cube access control system, announces PACE 3 chip with 256x256 photonic matrix f...

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....

Sizhen Chip Demonstrates Multi-Qubit Photonic Quantum States on Silicon Chip

Insider Brief Hefei Sizhen Chip Technology Co., Ltd. and the research group of Professor Ren Xifeng at the Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technolo...

Co-Packaged Optics Could Boost High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence

The next great leap in artificial intelligence may depend on a technology that does not make processors faster at all. Instead, it may come from changing the way processors communi...

Hyperdoped Silicon Photodiode Sets Efficiency Record

Author(s): Rachel BerkowitzA new light-trapping architecture could lead to CMOS-compatible night-vision technology.[Physics 19, s97] Published Wed Jul 29, 2026

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...