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Luminate, Qubits Ventures Launch Quantum and Photonics Pitch Competition:...
Lidar technology company Cepton received a nonbinding letter of intent for an investment of up to $100 million from its long-term automotive Tier 1 partner and current shareholder Koito Manufacturing...
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Mauna Kea Names Company Co-Founder CEO; MicroCare Adds Supply Chain Director:...
Medical device developer and manufacturer Mauna Kea Technologies appointed Sacha Loiseau CEO. Loiseau replaces interim CEO Nicolas Bouvier effective immediately. Loiseau co-founded Mauna Kea...
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Leonardo DRS Secures Army Contract; ZEISS Microscopy Strikes Contract: Week...
ARLINGTON, Va. — Leonardo DRS received a contract to produce its next-generation thermal weapon sights for the U.S. Army. The firm fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command is valued...
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Rockley Appoints President; Luna Adds VP: People in the News: 10/26/22
Rockley Photonics appointed Richard Meier president and CFO, effective immediately. Meier joins Rockely from Intersect ENT, a global ear, nose, and throat medical technology company, where he served as...
View ArticleSpectral Control of Network Lasers Opens Opportunity for On-Chip Photonics
Efficient spectral control of network lasers is possible and could lead to fast-switching, multifunctional light sources for on-chip photonic applications. Using experiments and mathematical models,...
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On-Board Optics Expand Bandwidth and Reduce Power Use in the Data Center
Co-packaged optics (CPO) and on-board optics (OBO) are not novel concepts, per se. The benefits of moving optics closer to the computing cores of data center switches have been clear to systems...
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OFC 2023 Extends Its In-Person Format with a Hybrid Conference
The 2023 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) returns to San Diego March 5-9, bringing a projected 12,000-plus attendees, 500-plus exhibitors, and dozens of cutting-edge...
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Novel Platform Reveals Insights into Large-Scale Brain Network Control
Researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine combined fiber photometry with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the dynamic activity of brain regions...
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Smaller Optical Gyroscopes Navigate into Broader Markets
The RQ-4 Global Hawk, Northrop Grumman’s high-altitude remotely piloted aircraft, has a maximum takeoff weight of 32,250 lb. The platform’s massive size affords it the ability to carry a Kearfortt...
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Luminate NY Names Cohort 6 Companies
Empire State Development (ESD) has announced the 10 companies selected to take part in round six of the Luminate NY accelerator program, investment fund, and competition. Each finalist will receive an...
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REM Atoms and Nanophotonic Resonator Offer Path to Quantum Networks
Researchers at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and Technical University of Munich (TUM) demonstrated a potential platform for large-scale quantum computing and communication networks....
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Kerr Combs Drive Optical Connections for Scalable Data Transfer
Systems that run artificial intelligence programs, such as large language models, face a “bandwidth bottleneck” that can limit the amount of data they transfer between nodes. Using light to send...
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Testing and Maintaining Not-Quite-Plug-and-Play MPO Connectors
You know how your headphone cables get tangled up in your bag just minutes after they were placed there neatly? And the Christmas tree lights, packed away carefully in January, emerge the next December...
View ArticleOFS Deals Telecom Fiber Manufacturing Space to Heraeus Comvance
Heraeus Comvance, a manufacturer of quartz glass for fiber optics in telecom and specialty applications, has acquired part of the OFS Fitel Denmark ApS plant in Brøndby, Denmark, near Copenhagen. The...
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What Is the Quantum Internet?
The internet is an inescapable part of modern life, and the hardware that enables it is almost as ubiquitous. Fiber cables transmit terabytes of data around the world every second and, although the...
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Five Common Design Mistakes Can Send PIC Packaging Costs Skyrocketing
We have all heard that photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can pack a ton of functionality into high-performance, energy-efficient, and low-cost microchips, as well as the promise that they will enable...
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NTT Produces Optical Power Supply for High-Speed Communications
The NTT Corp. and Kitami Institute of Technology (KIT) achieved a milestone in high-speed communications. The two organizations were able to deliver electric power exceeding 1 W to a remote location 10...
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Electro-Optic Modulators Improve Signal Quality and Cancel Noise
Delays in optical data transmission cause inconvenient lag times in communications and interfere with immersive experiences like gaming. Two factors that adversely affect the speed and reliability of...
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Mosaic to Work with AIM Photonics; Materion Lands $5M Contract: Week in...
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded microelectronics glass packaging technology developer Mosaic Microsystems a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract that will enable Mosaic to...
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Researchers Seek to Minimize Thermal Penalty of PIC-EIC Integration
Co-packaged optics for high performance computing and other data center applications require dense integration of silicon PICs with electronic integrated circuits (EICs). Stacking an electronic chip on...
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