Photonics Hot List: May 23, 2025

May 23, 2025
In this episode: A near-infrared spectroscopy method discovers early infant learning, the latest in business news, and a research team achieves quantum confinement.

In this episode of Photonics Hot List:

A new approach involving noninvasive functional near-infrared spectroscopy, designed to study the developing newborn child brain, has discovered that infants may begin learning even before birth.

Optics manufacturer Gooch & Housego is expanding its presence in the military and defense sector via the recent acquisition of a thin-film coatings developer. Gooch & Housego is expanding overall, too, with the opening of its Innovation Hub for Life Sciences.

An international team of researchers—while exploring how light emitted from 2D materials could be modulated by embedding a nanodot inside—have reached a quantum confinement milestone.

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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.