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Photonics Hot List: May 2, 2025

May 2, 2025

In this episode: A superluminescent diode bridges the physical and digital worlds, this week's business news headlines, and quantum ‘tornadoes’ are experimentally shown within momentum space.

Justine Murphy

In this episode of Photonics Hot List:

There’s a new superluminescent diode in town, and it’s poised to redefine the interactions between the physical and digital worlds. The technology’s developers say it could someday be seamlessly integrated into real-world AR/VR devices and other similar systems.

In business news, investment funds awarded to two European programs aims to further advance technologies including laser-driven communications systems.

Finally, in a milestone feat for the quantum materials realm, researchers have demonstrated that electrons can form orbital vortex lines—essentially tornado-like structures—within momentum space.

About the Author

Justine Murphy | Multimedia Director, Digital Infrastructure

Justine Murphy is the multimedia director for Endeavor Business Media's Digital Infrastructure Group. She is a multiple award-winning writer and editor with more 20 years of experience in newspaper publishing as well as public relations, marketing, and communications. For nearly 10 years, she has covered all facets of the optics and photonics industry as an editor, writer, web news anchor, and podcast host for an internationally reaching magazine publishing company. Her work has earned accolades from the New England Press Association as well as the SIIA/Jesse H. Neal Awards. She received a B.A. from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.