Coherent Corp. used SPIE Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco to present a broad portfolio spanning continuous-wave and ultrafast lasers, beam delivery, advanced materials, and thermal management technologies. The company positioned...
FiberCop has selected Adtran as a technology partner to support a nationwide high-speed metro transport rollout across Italy. The project underpins FiberCop’s open-access strategy, requiring a scalable and space-efficient optical platform capable of...
PIC Summit USA | Sunnyvale, California Nvidia’s Ashkan Seyedi, Director of Networking at NVIDIA, used his PIC Summit keynote to make a pointed argument for the interconnect community: as inference...
At the PIC Summit, Nick Harris, founder and CEO of Lightmatter, delivered a keynote built around a clear conclusion: the next major order-of-magnitude gains in AI system performance will come...
OIF announced its 2026 Board of Directors and Officers, setting leadership for standards and interoperability work spanning electrical, optical, and control technologies. The terms run through September 30, 2026, as the...
SENKO Advanced Components, Aerotech, and Santec announced a joint active-alignment architecture aimed at scaling co-packaged optics (CPO) manufacturing for AI-driven data centers. The collaboration introduces the PICAlign™ architecture, which targets one of the...
NewPhotonics announced a 1.6T near-packaged optics (NPO) chiplet designed to bring serviceability and interoperability into next-generation AI data center architectures. The new NPC50503 integrates lasers and an all-optical signal processor into...
Lightbits Labs reported record growth in 2025 as enterprises increasingly standardized on NVMe over TCP–based software-defined storage to support AI, analytics, and cloud-native workloads. The company cited accelerated adoption across financial...
Coherent Corp. launched the WaveShaper 1000A Sharp, a programmable optical filter designed to deliver 5 GHz frequency resolution for advanced optical networking and photonics applications. The new model targets data...
VIAVI Solutions introduced what it says is the industry’s first all-in-one medium- and long-range bidirectional testing and certification solution designed specifically for hollow core fiber (HCF). The platform targets emerging...
Ekinops announced a deployment of its 400G optical transport technology at MuniNet, a publicly owned fiber network serving communities across Western Kentucky. The upgrade targets higher capacity on existing fiber...
Tower Semiconductor and LightIC Technologies announced a strategic collaboration aimed at extending silicon photonics beyond AI data-center infrastructure into automotive, robotics, and Physical AI sensing applications. The partnership leverages Tower’s mature silicon photonics...
Coherent Corp. reached a new manufacturing milestone by bringing 6-inch Indium Phosphide (InP) wafers into full production, completing the transition a full year ahead of its internal schedule. The move expands...
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