VoxelSensors, Qualcomm Collaborate on Extended Reality Tech
VoxelSensors, a sensing and AI data company, collaborated with Qualcomm Technologies to develop VoxelSensors’ sensing technology with Snapdragon® XR Platforms. VoxelSensors developed a single-photon active event sensor 3D sensing, which solves depth sensing performance limitations for robotics and AI. SPAES has 10x power savings and lower latency for performance across varied lighting conditions.
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Quantinuum, with NVIDIA Backing, Secures $600M in Honeywell-Led Financing
Honeywell has closed an approximately $600 million equity capital raise for integrated quantum computing company Quantinuum. The round closed at a pre-money equity valuation of $10 billion. Quanta Computer, NVIDIA venture capital arm NVentures, and QED Investors participated in the round alongside repeat investors JPMorganChase, Mitsui, Amgen, Cambridge Quantum Holdings, Serendipity Capital, and Honeywell.
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Baumer Acquires X-Sensors AG
Baumer has acquired X-Sensors AG, a producer of high-precision force and strain sensors. Baumer plans to merge the respective development teams from both companies, and that existing sales channels remain in place until further notice.
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Tools for Analyzing, Controlling, and Simulating Biological Systems
Tue, Sep 16, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
It was discovered that one can physically magnify biological specimens by synthesizing dense networks of swellable polymer throughout them, and then chemically processing the specimens to isotropically swell them. This method, which is called expansion microscopy, enables ordinary microscopes to do nanoimaging – important for mapping molecules throughout cells, tissues, and organs. As a second example, Ed’s team serendipitously discovered that microbial rhodopsins, genetically expressed in neurons, could enable their electrical activity to be precisely controlled in response to light. These molecules, now called optogenetic tools, enable causal assessment of how neurons contribute to behaviors and pathological states, and are yielding new candidate treatment strategies for brain diseases. Finally, the development of new strategies such as robotic directed evolution, fluorescent reporters enable the precision measurement of signals such as voltage. To reveal relationships between different molecular signals within a cell, there is work of developing spatial and temporal multiplexing strategies that enable many such signals to be imaged at once in the same living cell. Sponsored by Zaber Technologies Inc., Jenoptik and COMSOL Inc.
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Metasurface Optics for Information Processing and Computing
Thu, Oct 9, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Metasurface optics—ultrathin, nanostructured elements capable of precise light manipulation—are revolutionizing optical information processing. By co-designing optical hardware with computational algorithms, these systems enable complex operations like spatial convolutions directly in the optical domain. This hybrid analog-digital approach offers new possibilities for faster, more efficient imaging and vision systems, while posing exciting challenges at the intersection of photonics, machine learning, and device integration.Sponsored by Moxtek.
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Features
Precision Optics, Optical Filters, Photonic Microwave and THz Sources
Photonics Media is currently seeking technical feature articles on a variety of topics for publication in our magazine Photonics Spectra. Please submit an informal 100-word abstract to Jake Saltzman, Senior Editor, at Jake.Saltzman@Photonics.com, or use our online submission form www.photonics.com/submitfeature.aspx.
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