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Siloton secures £8.4 million to translate GiraffeOCT into clinics
Funds could shave two years off development of quantum photonic integrated circuit-based OCT.
October 15 2026
Xiver picks up €28M debt finance to aid photonic chip production
Dutch MEMS foundry boasts intricate manufacturing expertise for optical communications and infrared sensing applications.
October 15 2026
SPIE details Photonics West 2027 and invites photonics community…
…and SPIE and Montana University announce $1 million endowment.
October 15 2026
Invisible tattoos that appear when illuminated
Colorado Boulder group creates multicolored tattoo inks that switch on and off under different wavelengths.
October 15 2026
UK’s Salience Labs adds $125M series B
Backing will expand the development of optical circuit switches aimed at bottlenecks in AI data centers.
October 14 2026
VISION 2026 sets new exhibitor record and provides impetus for the future
Last week’s event in Stuttgart received over 9,000 trade visitors, a 14 percent increase over 2024.
October 14 2026
U.S. Army Research Office awards $19.2 million to Florida team
October 14 2026
ASML looks to add more capacity as chip boom continues
October 14 2026
Francis Halzen awarded Nobel Prize in Physics 2026
October 12 2026
Plug & Play Multimode High-Power Laser Light Engine BrixXHUB Ultra
Omicron-Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH