Laser Technology

Liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) served us well for decades, but demand for smaller and more efficient displays for smartphones, wearables, and virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) headsets is now driving development of displays based on microLEDs and microOLEDs. While microdisplay technologies provide advantages over LCDs and OLEDs, like lower […]

March’s photonics-related IP activities include 32 cases concerning various technologies, including lighting and light sources; cameras, imaging systems and image processing; displays; sensors; medical and dental applications; virtual reality/augmented reality; photogrammetry; LiDAR; equipment control; and optical data storage. Lighting and light sources On March 6th, Savant Technologies LLC d/b/a GE Lighting filed petitions for Inter

March 2025 deals were headlined by another large AI compute interconnect deal as Celestial AI (Santa Clara, CA) raised a $250M Series C1 at a $2.5B valuation. Fidelity Management & Research led with BlackRock, Maverick Silicon, Tiger Global Management, and Lip-Bu Tan, as well as several previous investors participating. The company is focused on optical

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Collaborative effort across Europe The success of the Lasers4MaaS project hinges on the strength of its diverse consortium, which brings together a dynamic mix of academic institutions, research centers, industry leaders, and technology developers from across Europe and beyond. Each participant plays a vital role in advancing the project’s mission to revolutionize high-power laser welding.

February’s photonics-related IP activities include 44 cases concerning various technologies, including lighting and light sources; cameras, imaging systems, and image processing; solar cells; sensors; displays; medical applications; automotive applications; optical communications; equipment control; and manufacturing. Here are the summaries. Lighting and light sources On February 4th, Checkers Industrial Products, LLC d/b/a Checkers Safety Group sued

The U.S. DoD’s Space Development Agency (SDA) is crafting a large constellation of satellites—expected to cost roughly $35B through 2029—and currently working on switching from radio-frequency (RF) comms to speed-of-light laser comms to support them. Why is this work critical? A constellation of satellites with laser comms can perform mission-critical tasks from missile tracking and

Similarly, Salience Labs (Oxford, U.K.) announced a $30M Series A round led by ICM HPQC Fund and Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials (Santa Clara, CA), to advance its optical switch technology and enable new interconnect network architectures for AI clusters. Hyperlume (Ottawa, ON, Canada), a startup proposing high-bandwidth and low-power interconnects

Although January was a relatively quiet month for venture deals in photonics, it was exciting to see the launch of a new photonics integration platform as Eindhoven-based PHOTON IP raised a €4.75M ($4.9M) Seed round to develop its technology for combining silicon and multiple optimized III-V materials for lasers, high-speed modulators, and photodetectors onto a

On February 11th, the Laser Institute (LIA) announced the passing of Dr. Nathaniel R. Quick on February 4, 2025, in Lake Mary, FL, at the age of 75. Dr. Quick was a pioneering figure in laser processing of advanced materials and a dedicated leader within LIA, serving as its executive director from 2017 to 2023.