Lightera spun off from Furukawa Electric Group in April 2025, after Furukawa began integrating its global fiber and cable ...

UK-based startup Singular Photonics has launched a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) image sensor that combines photon ...

Researchers overcame sunlight attenuation in water, charging lithium-ion batteries 10 meters below the ocean’s surface.

The company said that this award represents the first-ever production contract for high-energy laser weapon systems in US ...

While nonlinear optical processes, such as second-harmonic generation, are fundamental to integrated photonics, achieving wide-range electrical tunability within a truly nanoscale device has remained ...

Last year, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, manipulated the human eye to see a new color, which they called “olo” (see “A New Color Comes into View,” OPN, May 2025). Now, ...

An international group of scientists has developed a new type of silicon-based metasurface that can modulate mid-infrared ...

Researchers in Switzerland and Germany have demonstrated an optical chip that delivers femtosecond pulses of laser light with energies above a nanojoule (Nature, doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10517-4). The ...

An international team of researchers has developed a perovskite-silicon triple-junction solar cell that achieves a record certified efficiency of 30.02% (Nature, doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10385-y). The ...

Researchers at Kobe University in Japan have created a nanostructured coating that creates vivid, glossy colors on complex 3D surfaces (Small Struct., doi: 10.1002/sstr.70600). Designed for real-world ...

OPN talked with six companies about some of the opportunities AI could open for the optics and photonics industry—in silicon photonics and beyond. The release of Open AI’s generative-AI chatbot, ...