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photonicSENS was awarded the 2026 VISION Award at the VISION 2026 conference in Stuttgart. The company is recognized for its plenoptic camera technology which captures a full 2D image and a metric, per-pixel depth map in a single shot from…
Read at Photonics.com →Infleqtion, in collaboration with Honeywell Aerospace and UC Santa Barbara, has developed an integrated optical cavity that helps shrink quantum sensors down to handheld size. The University of California, Santa Barbara's (UCSB’s)…
Read at Photonics.com →Precision applications like optical metrology, quantum sensing, and atomic clocks require a laser source with an exceptionally stable optical frequency. Often, this stability comes from bulky lasers housed in controlled laboratory…
Read at Photonics.com →With its 2026 forecast, photonics market research firm LightCounting is projecting a roughly-10x increase in shipments of silicon-based pluggable modules from 2024’s projected total. As industry strives to meet demand, silicon…
Read at Photonics.com →When hurricane season is approaching in the Americas and much of Europe is already taking jackets out of the closet, there are places where summer still reigns. In Málaga in late September, palm trees sway in warm Mediterranean air,…
Read at Photonics.com →JEDEC Solid State Technology Association released JESD264: Silicon Photonics Qualification and Reliability Requirements, the first industry-wide standard designed to bring consistent qualification and reliability practices to silicon…
Read at Photonics.com →Liquid crystals have shaped modern photonics and electronics for decades, most visibly through the flat-panel displays that feature in the devices that dominate everyday life. Conventional nematic liquid crystals, which consist of rod-like…
Read at Photonics.com →Gekko Photonics, a developer of non-invasive tools that use Raman spectroscopy to monitor chemical reactions in real time to ensure product quality, received the Company of the Year Award at the Luminate NY Finals 2026, held this week in…
Read at Photonics.com →Though we strive to consistently align the technology focuses of feature articles with the topics that appear on our yearly editorial calendar, trends and themes that emerge throughout the year do, from time to time, supersede even the…
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