Mastodawn

Christiaan Huygens used improved telescopes to study Saturn and discover Titan, then introduced the wave theory of light in 1690, a principle that still guides modern #optics and #photonics and inspired the Cassini-Huygens mission.🔭🛰️ Learn about his legacy in #PhotonicsFocus: https://bit.ly/4bYbqOS

sayzard 1d ago

TechRadar (@techradar)

모자이크 메타서페이스 설계가 11가지 광학 기능을 하나로 통합해, 제어된 무질서가 광학 시스템의 성능을 높이고 공간 요구를 줄일 수 있다고 주장하는 새로운 광학 기술을 소개한다.

https://x.com/techradar/status/2045625773651034187

#metasurface #optics #photonics #research #materials

TechRadar (@techradar) on X

A mosaic metasurface design integrates eleven optical functions, claiming that controlled disorder can enhance performance and reduce space requirements in optical systems. https://t.co/1Gk4xSS7s1

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Mariusz Klimczak 2d ago

I served as the committee secretary at a PhD viva yesterday. The candidate works ar a Polish IR detector company VIGO Photonics, vigophotonics.com
The viva went well but it was also stunning to learn that apart from their detectors being on the Mars Rover (martian soil spectrometer), they also installed their devices in CO2 monitoring system of #artemisii craft! Stunning! A 🇵🇱 company just outside of Warsaw. 😎
#academicchatter #photonics #physics

CSEM 4d ago

@csem.ch is now part of Morphotonics’s Global Lab-to-Fab Partner Network—helping move nanoimprint lithography closer to scalable industrial use in photonics and advanced manufacturing. Discover what we can do: bit.ly/4vuNPht More about the network: bit.ly/4cGz8k9 #Photonics #AdvancedManufacturing

SPIE 5d ago

Yesterday at #SPIEPhotonicsEurope, we were pleased to recognize Dan Curticapean, the 2025 SPIE María J. Yzuel Educator Award recipient. 👏 Dan received this award for a lifelong dedication to teaching #optics and #photonics with infectious passion, as well as his support of the SPIE community.

Hacker News 6d ago

MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mems-photonics

#HackerNews #MEMS #Array #Chip #video #technology #innovation #microelectronics #photonics #grain #of #sand

Mems Photonics Chip Shrinks Quantum Computer Control Limits

MEMS array to steer lasers for quantum computer finds other uses

IEEE Spectrum

KAPUALabs Apr 9

Photonics is revolutionizing AI infrastructure: Optical interconnects are reaching cost parity with copper while offering superior bandwidth. $NVDA's $4B investment in suppliers like Lumentum signals the shift. Our analysis explores how this reshapes value chains for $AVGO and others. https://post.kapualabs.com/2p8aymja #AIInfrastructure #Photonics #Semiconductors #OpticalInterconnect

Daniel Khent Apr 8

Rotating laser vortices emerge spontaneously inside liquid crystal structures — quantum tornadoes that self-organize because the physics demands it. https://phys.org/news/2026-03-physicists-laser-tornado-miniature-synthetic.html #Photonics #QuantumPhysics #Emergence

Physicists create laser tornado in miniature structures using synthetic magnetic field

Can light behave like a whirlwind? It turns out it can—and such "optical tornadoes" have now been created in an extremely small structure by scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, the Military University of Technology, and the Institut Pascal CNRS at Université Clermont Auvergne. This discovery opens a new pathway for creating miniature light sources with complex structures, potentially enabling the development of simpler and more scalable photonic devices in the future, for applications such as optical communication and quantum technologies. The research is published in the journal Science Advances.

Phys.org

BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻Apr 6

Canadian start up Xanadu (founded in 2016) went IPO via SPAC (Mar 27) on the Nasdaq and TSX stock exchanges under the ticker symbol "XNDU".

Xanadu is building photonics-based quantum computing systems and claims its approach can leverage existing modern chip manufacturing facilities and optical components like fibre optics. https://www.xanadu.ai/press/xanadu-becomes-first-pure-play-photonic-quantum-computing-company-to-go-public #Quantum #QuantumComputing #Xanadu #TSX #NASDAQ #IPO #Photonics #SPAC #Optics #FibreOptics

KillBait News Apr 5

Researchers Develop Ultrathin Layer to Efficiently Trap and Convert Light

📰 Original title: Scientists trap light in a layer 1,000x thinner than hair

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#science #photonics #nanotechnology #molybdenumdiselenide

Researchers Develop Ultrathin Layer to Efficiently Trap and Convert Light

Researchers at the University of Warsaw, in collaboration with several Polish institutions, have engineered a nanoscale structure capable of trapping infrared light in a layer just 40 nanometers thick…

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