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Photonics Hot List: October 31, 2025

In this episode of Photonics Hot List: A glasses-free, truly immersive experience could soon be possible. Researchers at Zhejiang University in China have designed a 3D display that touts significantly higher image resolution and a radically vivid depth display.  Business news roundup: Voyant Photonics, developer of on-chip frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) LiDAR systems, has announced the

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Copackaged optics is an unprecedented era for AI infrastructure

Artificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of our digital economy, and its demands on infrastructure are unlike anything the semiconductor industry has encountered before. Data centers are straining under the weight of exponential growth in compute workloads and bandwidth requirements. Electrical interconnects, the backbone of current systems, are showing their limits in latency, heat, and

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Beyond the false binary: The PQC vs. QKD debate misses the point

The HNDL threat crypto agility can’t address HNDL attacks pose existential threats to long-lived sensitive data. Adversaries intercept and store encrypted communications today, then decrypt them when quantum computers or cryptanalytic breakthroughs emerge years later. This isn’t theoretical—intelligence agencies have long pursued bulk data collection with precisely this strategy. PQC advocates invoke “crypto agility”—swapping cryptographic

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Pulses drive industrial innovation: Recent advances in commercial terahertz time-domain systems

For two decades, terahertz technology carried the promise of nondestructive, material-specific insights but remained primarily confined to research labs. The scientific community was impressed with demonstrations of nondestructive, label-free probing through polymers, coatings, and tablets, resolving structures on picosecond timescales, and detecting spectral fingerprints of water and other materials. But the systems were large, alignment-sensitive,

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Optical and electrical control of a silicon-based quantum device?

A new diode nanocavity created by a team of researchers at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and quantum company Photonic Inc. in Canada enables optical and electrical control of silicon “color center” qubits. Until now, these qubits, a.k.a. T centers, were controlled optically with lasers. This dual control option of T centers hints at potential applications

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Magnetic quantum materials meet photonics: Bridging predictability and surprise

Light is the fastest and cleanest carrier of information we know. The science and technology of guiding, manipulating, and detecting light—photonics—underpins every facet of modern life, from the global internet and medical imaging to precision manufacturing and autonomous sensing. For decades, the photonics industry has flourished in an environment of predictability. Much of linear optics

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Photonics Hot List: October 24, 2025

In this episode of Photonics Hot List: Researchers in Portugal have designed an imaging approach that distinguishes between benign and malignant tumors, and could ultimately help clinicians develop more effective treatments. The business sector of the photonics industry is booming with the recent announcements of several mergers and acquisitions. A so-called photonic crystal highway, guiding

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Large triple-junction perovskite-perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell sets efficiency record

A team of researchers led by Professor Anita Ho-Baillie, the John Hooke Chair of Nanoscience at the University of Sydney in Australia, set a new solar technology record for the world’s largest triple-junction perovskite-perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell. Their 16-cm2 triple-junction cell features a steady-state power conversion efficiency of 23.3% (independently certified), which is the highest

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Foundry to frontline: Key takeaways from AMF’s ‘Silicon Photonics Ecosystem Summit 2025’ in Shenzhen, China

AMF’s recent event brought together industry leaders to discuss the ways silicon photonics (SiPh) is maturing from a promising technology into a foundational standard for the next-generation high-speed data infrastructure. The summit’s central theme was SiPh at scale, and it provided a strategic roadmap to advance SiPh technology to meet rapidly accelerating production and unprecedented

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