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Lithography-free photonic processor for AI
Lithography-free photonic processor for AI
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Researchers in the US have created a photonic processor that provides programmable on-chip AI information processing without needing lithography. The…
PsiQuantum to ramp up silicon photonics with Skywater
PsiQuantum to ramp up silicon photonics with Skywater
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Quantum computer developer PsiQuantum is expanding its deal with US foundry SkyWater Technology to ramp for production. The two companies…
Silicon photonic blockchain to reduce the energy of crypto mining
Silicon photonic blockchain to reduce the energy of crypto mining
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Researchers in the US have developed a photonic chip to reduce the energy necessary for cryptocurrency and blockchain applications. Mining…
Backpropagation boost for deep learning in photonic neural networks
Backpropagation boost for deep learning in photonic neural networks
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Researchers in Milan have built and trained a three layer neural network with backpropogation using silicon photonics as a key…

Strain engineering boost for scalable on-chip photonic lasers
Strain engineering boost for scalable on-chip photonic lasers
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Researchers in Singapore have developed a scalable technique to produce identical on-chip lasers by dynamically controlled strain engineering. The technology to develop a large number of identical coherent light sources…
French tech for lensless acousto-optic holographic imaging
French tech for lensless acousto-optic holographic imaging
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WiMi Hologram Cloud has developed an ultrafast transient optical system that integrates several key approaches for lensless holographic imaging. The design brings together sequentially timed all-optical mapping photography (STAMP) with…
Foxconn shows off brighter microLED microdisplay
Foxconn shows off brighter microLED microdisplay
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Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., which trades as Foxconn, has worked with Ennostar and Unikorn Semiconductor Corp. to produce a 0.12-inch microdisplay. The companies worked together to optimize microLED…
£1m project for 1W PCSEL for AI
£1m project for 1W PCSEL for AI
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Vector Photonics has raised £1 million for an industrial research project to commercialise its 1 Watt, all-semiconductor, PCSEL lasers for AI chips. At 1W, the optical power of the photonic…
Smallest short wavelength IR devices for wearables
Smallest short wavelength IR devices for wearables
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Rohm has developed Short-Wavelength Infrared (SWIR) LEDs and photodiodes in the industry’s smallest class 1608-size (1.6mm × 0.8mm) for wearable requiring material detection. SWIR has a longer wavelength than near-infrared…
Next generation Virtusoso AI design tool targets SiP, 5G
Next generation Virtusoso AI design tool targets SiP, 5G
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Cadence Design Systems has launched the latest version of its Virtuoso RF and mixed signal design tools, adding generative AI technology and integration with microwave design tools. Virtuoso Studio is…
Aldo Kamper takes over as CEO of AMS-Osram
Aldo Kamper takes over as CEO of AMS-Osram
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Aldo Kamper, former CEO of struggling automotive cable-harness maker Leoni AG, has joined AMS-Osram as CEO replacing Alexander Everke. Kamper is now both CEO and chairman of the management board…
Flip chip module architecture for backside-emitting VCSEL arrays
Flip chip module architecture for backside-emitting VCSEL arrays
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Coherent has unveiled a patented flip chip module architecture for dynamic illumination and sensing with backside-emitting vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays. The module technology under US patent 11,189,985 B2 from…
Startup starts sampling ‘large-wafer’ photodetectors
Startup starts sampling ‘large-wafer’ photodetectors
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Optoelectronic sensor startup Aeluma Inc. (Golera, Calif.) has started sampling photodetectors to a “tier-1” automotive supplier. Founded in 2019, Aeluma has developed technology that combines compound semiconductor optoelectronics with what…
SynSense raises US$10 million for smart vision sensor
SynSense raises US$10 million for smart vision sensor
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SynSense (Chengdu, China), a supplier of event-driven sensors, has raised US$10 million in a pre-B+ funding round. The round was led by Ausvic Capital (Hong Kong) Ltd. and the money…
HiLight, Albis team for low cost 10G passive fibre networks
HiLight, Albis team for low cost 10G passive fibre networks
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Albis Optoelectronics in Germany has teamed up with HiLight Semiconductor in the UK on a high performance, cost effective receiver for 10Gbit/s passive fibre broadband. The combined performance of Albis’…
First live demo of 200G PAM4 Mach-Zehnder modulated laser PIC
First live demo of 200G PAM4 Mach-Zehnder modulated laser PIC
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Coherent is demonstrating its 200G four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) Mach-Zehnder modulated laser technology in an integrated photonic chip for the first time this week in the US. The live…
Tower partners for optical fiber die attach
Tower partners for optical fiber die attach
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Speciality foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel) is collaborating with Teramount Ltd. (Jerusalem, Israel) on connecting optical fibers to silicon chips. Tower has said it will use Teramount’s ‘PhotonicPlug’…
Lidar startup Innoviz opens office in Munich
Lidar startup Innoviz opens office in Munich
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Proximity to customers and R&D partners was deciding factor…
Qualcomm partners with image sensor pioneer Prophesee
Qualcomm partners with image sensor pioneer Prophesee
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Prophesee SA (Paris, France) has announced it is collaborating with Qualcomm to optimize its event-based image sensors for use with next-generation smartphones based on the Snapdragon platform. The partnership is…
FlexEnable emerges from restructuring under US control
FlexEnable emerges from restructuring under US control
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FlexEnable Ltd. (Cambridge, England), a developer of flexible organic electronics, has been taken over by US firm Fortress Investment Group LLC. FlexEnable Ltd. went into administration on August 5, 2022,…
PureLiFi launches 802.11bb LiFi module
PureLiFi launches 802.11bb LiFi module
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PureLiFi Ltd. (Edinburgh, Scotland) has launched the Light Antenna One optical communications module at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The module will be compliant with the upcoming IEEE 802.11bb…
1300 nm DFB laser for silicon photonics
1300 nm DFB laser for silicon photonics
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Coherent has launched a 1300nm high-power continuous wave (CW) distributed feedback (DFB) laser diodes for silicon photonics-based datacom pluggable transceivers. Cloud and AI service providers are ramping up deployments of…
Mercedes inks multi-billion dollar deal with Luminar
Mercedes inks multi-billion dollar deal with Luminar
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Lidar for Level-3 driving, Google for navigation in Mercedes cockpit…
Smart vision startup Oculi turns to GF for next chips
Smart vision startup Oculi turns to GF for next chips
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Oculi Inc. (Baltimore, Maryland), a fabless chip company seeking to add intelligence to image sensors at the pixel level, has formed a partnership with chipmaker GlobalFoundries Inc. Under the agreement…
Compact optical subsystems for telecoms and LiDAR
Compact optical subsystems for telecoms and LiDAR
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Coherent has launched a range of ultracompact optical amplifiers that are 2.5mm high for high-speed telecom transceivers and LiDAR sensors. The family includes a micro-pump laser, a variable optical attenuator, and…
Teledyne ships 72Mpixel 360 degree camera
Teledyne ships 72Mpixel 360 degree camera
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Teledyne FLIR is shipping its 72Mpixel Ladybug6 360-degree camera. Ladybug6 uses global shutter CMOS sensors and high-end optics to capture 360-degree spherical images from moving platforms in all weather conditions.
Using LiFi to carry QKD quantum crypto keys
Using LiFi to carry QKD quantum crypto keys
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A German project is aiming to carry quantum keys over LiFi light-based links for the first time for secure networks. LiFi (light-based WiFi) is inherently more secure than radio-based wireless…
Photonic ‘FPGA’ developer ships SmartLight Processor
Photonic ‘FPGA’ developer ships SmartLight Processor
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Spanish startup iPronics SA (Valencia, Spain) has shipped programmable photonic integrated circuits to multiple companies operating in different sectors. Customers include a multinational telecommunications and electronics company, a European optical…


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