Optics & Photonics News is the magazine of Optica (formerly OSA).
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Researchers showed that a tiny photonic chip can combine the light from multiple telescopes at the CHARA Array.
The team hopes the work could help astronomers study distant planetary systems in greater detail.
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Researchers created a synthetic molecular system that can address an individual molecular qubit using light.
They plan on integrating the system with photonic chips and scaling it up to provide the technology for quantum networking. bit.ly/4sDtPIw
OPN's latest Profile looks at the 2026 Optica Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging Topical Meeting (DH), which celebrated 20 years or growth and innovation in the field since its inception.
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OPN's November feature article "How to Staff a Growing Industry" explores how the booming photonics market can train a multi-skilled workforce to keep up with growth and reach its full potential.
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Salience Labs has raised US$125 million in series B funding.
The company says that the funding will support the deployment of its optical circuit switching (OCS) technology and scale its manufacturing capabilities.
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A new laser-enhanced quantum sensor can measure extremely weak magnetic signals, such as those produced by neural activity in the brain.
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Researchers have demonstrated how to measure the Berry curvature experimentally using a relatively straightforward all-optical system that exploits nonlinear circular dichroism.
The work could aid the development of new optical “valleytronic” devices. bit.ly/47LJzQk
Image of the Week: Shadows of Heat
Invisible currents of heated air emerge as delicate shadows, revealing the hidden dynamics of thermal convection.
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Private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners announced that it acquired advanced optical components and photonic systems manufacturer Gooch & Housego for $540 million.
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EpoQ has won the 2026 Global Photonics Engineering Contest!
The company's winning proposal focused on the development of a compact trapped-ion atomic clock based on integrated photonics.
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Attosecond X-ray pulses hit record intensity!
Researchers focused the attosecond pulses from the European XFEL through total-reflection optics to create record peak intensity of roughly 10^20 W/cm^2.
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In new work, researchers analyzed 17 visual pigments in the mantis shrimp eye involved in color sensing.
They discovered two red-light-absorbing proteins that can switch on and off using different wavelengths of light, which is rare in animals. bit.ly/47Asqc9
OPN's November issue is now live! 🥳 👉 bit.ly/4ignmi7
The issue includes features about staffing the growing global #photonics #industry, XPO #optics for scaling data centers, replacing heat-intensive #chemical processes with photon-driven reactions and so much more!
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Image of the Week: Droplet on FP Cavity
Optical image of a fabricated MDM Fabry–Pérot cavity with water droplets placed on its surface.
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25 years ago Flagstaff became the world’s first International Dark Sky City.
Now, scientists, lighting designers and dark-sky advocates are showing how better optics can help reverse the spread of artificial light at night. bit.ly/4imFWGn
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Artificial light at night can have a negative effect on both plants and animals.
Check out OPN's latest infographic to see some of the ways light disrupts nighttime behaviors: bit.ly/4z0Q9hJ
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A new optogenetic therapy restored partial vision in blind patients.
The researchers believe that the findings from this early-stage study provide the foundations for developing more sensitive and effective optogenetic therapies.
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ALT A digital illustration of a virtual human head with circuit patterns. The head is interacting with a pair of high-tech glasses featuring circuit designs. A strand of DNA is shown overlapping the side of the head, creating a futuristic, technological theme.
A new type of self-aligning frequency comb has the potential to bring the technology to mass-market chip-based products and find applications in compact devices for navigation, timekeeping and sensing.
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"Laser sales for optical #communications are going through a once-a-generation expansion from investments in #AI data centers." -Tom Hausken
Check out OPN's latest Market Report for a zoomed-in look at the #laser market: bit.ly/4hQZTnq
Is thin-film lithium niobate becoming the modulation engine of the next era of optical interconnects?
OPN's October feature "TFLN: Reliable Performance at Scale" explores this platform and the place it could hold in the future of co-packaged optics. bit.ly/4ignI9t
