In this episode: AI-enhanced imaging produces clearer images, iPronics and Xanadu receive significant funding, and a new optical fiber type shows promise for quantum signal processing...
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Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
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Podcast

Lasers/Sources

In an advance for photonics and ultrafast science, researchers generate 18-attosecond isolated light pulses via a high-power Yb-laser platform.
Aug. 26, 2026
Part 1 of a 4-part series: Why should prospective buyers verify before purchasing high-power handheld laser devices? A device ordered online and delivered to your door passes ...
Aug. 25, 2026
In a breakthrough, researchers in France and Germany demonstrate a photonic time crystal—with optical properties that change over time—and it has the potential to dramatically...
Aug. 13, 2026
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This episode of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast examines the increasing number of optics and photonics technician training programs around the U.S.
Aug. 11, 2026

Optics

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Swetapadma Sahoo in the lab.
A newly discovered type of diamond color center has a desirable quirk: It couples to a single, stable local vibration that shows potential to be controlled.
Sept. 1, 2026
Free-space optical quantum key distribution (QKD) is poised to be a connectivity gamechanger for ad hoc or remote networks, or whenever mobile users are involved.
Aug. 31, 2026
When researchers in Germany froze liquid-core optical fibers to see what would happen, they discovered a larger-than-expected in-fiber Brillouin gain.
Aug. 28, 2026
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This episode of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Shankaran Janardhanan, senior vice president and general manager of the Photonics and RF division at GlobalFoundries...
Aug. 25, 2026

Quantum

Quantum computing isn’t waiting to become useful—its practical hybrid phase is already underway.
Aug. 24, 2026
Laser subsystems are a constraint in scaling quantum technologies, but advances in visible distributed feedback (DFB) lasers provide an alternative that offers intrinsic single...
Aug. 11, 2026
Nvidia works with companies building quantum computers, including ones with photonics-based quantum processing unit (QPU) approaches, and provides a quantum platform they can ...
Aug. 10, 2026
Vexlum’s CEO and Cofounder Jussi-Pekka Penttinen shares how the Finnish company differentiates itself, why they’re expanding operations into the U.K., and three intriguing trends...
Aug. 5, 2026

Test/Measurement

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Daniel Kraus, CEO of Opto.
Jérémy Picot-Clémente, EPIC’s Photonics Technologies program manager, talks to Daniel Kraus, CEO of Opto, a Germany-based producer of advanced AI-enabled microscope sensors for...
Aug. 26, 2026
Astronomers discover an extremely bright ‘Little Red Dot’ within the earliest galaxies of the Universe—dating back a few hundred million years after the Big Bang—and it appears...
Aug. 17, 2026
The mission: A nine-hour access window to create a high-res digital twin of the Liberty Bell forced our team to combine four forms of optical capture and check every dataset before...
Aug. 17, 2026
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Celebrate innovation in optics, photonics, and quantum by entering the Laser Focus World Innovators Awards.
Aug. 3, 2026

Detectors/Imaging

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Automation is reshaping fluorescence imaging. In life science research, pharmaceutical drug discovery, and industrial inspection, instrument developers are under pressure to acquire...
Sept. 1, 2026
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Automated imaging devices GANscan and BlurryScope show how acquisition and reconstruction can be codesigned—as long as validation boundaries remain explicit.
Aug. 20, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t replace the traditional metrics of augmented-reality (AR) optical performance, but it does change how optical engineers prioritize and balance...
Aug. 19, 2026