Photonics Hot List: August 15, 2025

In this episode: An advanced acousto-optic nanodevice, this week's business headlines, and extreme electromagnetic fields in the lab.
Aug. 15, 2025

In this episode of Photonics Hot List:

Scientists at Stanford University have developed a new type of acousto-optic modulator that can manipulate light faster than even the fastest existing spatial light modulators, which could mean big things for photonic circuits and displays.

Coherent and Apple have announced they’re expanding their VCSEL manufacturing-focused partnership, while Spain-based photonics research center ICFO has created Shinephi, a spinoff focused on advanced interferometric imaging technology.

Engineers at the University of Colorado Denver have, for the first time, created extreme electromagnetic fields in a lab. It’s a groundbreaking feat that could potentially shrink the massive colliders conventionally used in advanced experiments down to a chip.

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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