Photonics Hot List: October 3, 2025

In this episode: A new breath sensor easily diagnoses diabetes, this week's business headlines, and a nanophotonic OPO enables broadband coherent light sources.
Oct. 3, 2025

In this episode of Photonics Hot List:

Diagnosing diabetes typically requires invasive, expensive lab work. But Penn State researchers are making the process simpler with a sensor that can diagnose via just a breath sample.

Laser and machine tool manufacturer TRUMPF is joining forces with technology company Siemens to accelerate digital manufacturing and AI readiness. Quantum Computing Inc. reports significant financial gains.

Working toward frequency comb advancement, researchers at Caltech are developing a new nanophotonic optical parametric oscillator device that enables coherent light sources.

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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