Optics & Photonics News is the magazine of Optica (formerly OSA).
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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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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
Laser manufacturer LITILIT announced it is building a new automated femtosecond-laser factory in Vilnius.
The company plans to ramp up annual production capacity to as many as 3,000 systems over the next few years.
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Researchers developed an ultrathin metasurface platform that may enable greater flexibility for reconfigurable nonlinear signal processing and adaptive photonic computing.
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