• Photonics Hot List: July 25, 2025

    In this episode: A new microscope makes brighter and sharper images, the latest photonics business headlines, and an on-chip electronic-photonic-quantum system.
    July 25, 2025

    A team from Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich have developed a microscope that shows living cells’ bioluminescent signals brighter and sharper than is possible with conventional bioluminescence technology, which tends to emit light that’s too faint to produce highly detailed images. It surpasses fluorescence imaging approaches, too, which can interfere with cell behavior.

    A £25 million investment is moving growth plans forward for Photonic. The Canadian startup, which is working to develop quantum computers based on optically linked silicon spin qubits, is expanding into the U.K. with a new research site. And Volantis will receive $9 million in seed funding to develop photonic interconnects based on densely parallel optical waveguides.

    A group of scientists from Boston University, the University of California Berkeley, and Northwestern University have demonstrated the world’s first electronic-photonic-quantum system on a chip. The technology combines quantum light sources and stabilizing electronics using a standard 45-nm semiconductor manufacturing process to produce streams of correlated photon pairs.

    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.

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