HAMAMATSU, Japan, Nov. 19, 2019 — A new photonic integrated circuit device, developed by researchers in Japan, can be placed at the front end of a digital computer and optimized to perform specific functions with less power consumption than is needed for fully electronic devices. This photonic accelerator, called PAXEL, is a special class of processor that can process images or time-serial data either in an analog or digital fashion on a real-time basis. PAXEL is distinct from electronic accelerators in that the target...

NEWARK, Del., Nov. 12, 2019 — A University of Delaware (UD) research team has designed an integrated photonics platform using metasurfaces. To limit the loss of data, the team fabricated a high-contrast transmitarray (HCTA)-based metalens on a silicon-based chip programmed with...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 8, 2019 — A team from Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed rewritable optical components for surface lightwaves. When a wave of light is confined on a 2D plane by certain materials, it...

ATLANTA, Oct. 4, 2019 — Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) have integrated a microheater and a microring resonator onto a silicon carbide (SiC) chip, creating a photonic integrated chip that can be thermally tuned by applying an electric signal....

SYDNEY, Aug. 21, 2019 — A growing group of scientists is adapting the phenomenon known as Brillouin scattering to a new generation of integrated circuits for 5G and broadband networks, sensors, satellite communication, radar systems, and defense. While the feedback that...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 18, 2019 — Qiang Lin, an expert in integrated quantum photonics and nonlinear photonics at the University of Rochester, has been awarded the national Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S....

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 9, 2019 — Infinera, a supplier of networking solutions, announced it is providing Italy's largest internet service provider with optical network hardware in the construction of the Nibble Network, a new ultralong-haul photonic backbone that will link Sicily...

CAMPERDOWN, Australia, July 8, 2019 — Researchers have found a way to manipulate a soliton on a silicon chip at both the source and reception end of an optical fiber without altering the wave shape. They used a Bragg gated structure on a silicon substrate. The discovery, which is the...

Jul 2, 2019 — Decades of research and development are finally paying off for silicon nanophotonics. The silicon optical transceiver market, for example, is projected to grow nearly twentyfold in volume over the next five years, much of it driven by the needs of...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 1, 2019 — More than 700 people gathered in Rochester June 25-27 for the 2019 Light and Sound Interactive (LSI), a conference dedicated to optics, photonics, and imaging (OPI) where innovators showcased current and future technology. The 2019 Light and Sound...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 25, 2019 — Join fellow students and colleagues from the photonics industries for a week of intensive short courses on integrated photonics, taking place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass., this summer from July 22-26. Two...

Jun 6, 2019 — The history of radar (radio detection and ranging) dates back to the 1880s when renowned German physicist Heinrich Hertz showed that radio waves were reflected by metallic objects. Based on the principles demonstrated by Hertz, Christian...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 22, 2019 — AIM Summer Academy 2019 has opened registration for its weeklong “photonics boot camp” featuring intensive short courses on integrated photonics (IP) for students, educators, engineers, and executives. From materials and devices to electronic...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 17, 2019 — The inconsistent performance of electronic and photonic integrated circuits is the focus of Early CAREER award recipient Zheng Zhang, an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Because the nanoscale fabrication process is...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, and ACHIM, Germany, May 13, 2019 — Coherent Solutions and ficonTEC Services have entered into a partnership to advance electro-optical measurement capability for use in volume testing within the manufacturing cycle of integrated photonic devices.

BROOKFIELD, Conn., April 24, 2019 — Photronics Inc. has spent $320 million on two new facilities in China for the research and development, manufacture, and sale of photomasks, in an effort to become a critical supplier in the Chinese electronics industry. The new facilities are...

ALBANY, N.Y., April 12, 2019 — AIM Photonics is getting ready for its 2019 Summer Academy, a week of intensive short courses on integrated photonics. The academy will take place July 22-26, 2019, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass. The weeklong...

GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 1, 2019 — A photon pair source that can bridge the visible and telecom bands could be useful for transporting quantum communications over optical fibers. However, the optical components that store and process quantum information typically require...

LIVINGSTON, England, and OSAKA, Japan, Feb. 28, 2019 — Optoscribe, a supplier of 3D glass-based integrated photonics components, and Sumitomo Electric, an optical fiber cable and component manufacturing technology supplier, have formed a strategic cooperation to provide multicore fiber components for...

Feb 25, 2019 — Over the last 40 years, OFC (Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition) — to be held March 3-7 at the San Diego Convention Center — has become, globally, the leading event for advances and networking in optical...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Feb. 21, 2019 — Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Luasanne (EPFL) Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, together with colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Ioffe Institute in Russia, have discovered a way...

ROME, N.Y., and WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2019 — Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have developed a way to directly write quantum light sources, which emit a single photon of light at a time, into monolayer semiconductors such as...

DRESDEN, Germany, Jan. 31, 2019 — Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP have developed a miniaturized phosphorescence sensor that combines marker and sensor on a small chip surface about the size of a thumbnail. OLED...

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Jan. 29, 2019 — InPulse is a pilot project that will offer access to the latest production technology for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on indium phosphide to startups with promising ideas, but no access to PIC manufacturing facilities. The pilot...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 9, 2019 — An integrated photonics platform that can store light and electrically control its frequency in an integrated circuit is the newest development from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). According to the...