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Imec, Mitsui Chemicals to Partner; Raytheon Receives $10M DARPA Award: Week in Brief: 12/15/23

photonics - Vie, 12/15/2023 - 08:00

Imec and Mitsui Chemicals, a Japanese chemical company and EUV pellicle supplier, have entered into a strategic partnership on the commercialization of carbon-nanotube (CNT)-based pellicles for extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. Under this partnership, Mitsui Chemicals will integrate imec’s CNT-based pellicle innovation into Mitsui Chemicals’ pellicle technology to achieve full production specifications, targeting its introduction in high-power EUV systems in the 2025-2026 timeframe. From left: imec’s senior vice president of world wide strategic partnerships, Thomas Piliszczuk, and Mitsui's business sector president, Akio Hirhahra. Courtesy of imec. ARLINGTON, Va. — Raytheon received a $10 million contract from...
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Metamaterial Chip Startup Neurophos Raises $7.2M in Seed Round

photonics - Vie, 12/15/2023 - 08:00
Neurophos, a spinout of Duke University and Metacept Inc. and incubator focused on creating metamaterials-based companies, raised $7.2 million in seed round funding to commercialize metamaterial and optical AI inference chips targeting data center applications. Neurophos plans to use its high-speed silicon photonics technology to drive a metasurface in-memory processor capable of fast, efficient, AI compute.

The funds, the company said, will be used to facilitate the production of a proprietary metasurface that serves as a tensor core processor, as well as to hire a team of engineers in Austin, Texas. According to the company, Neurophos’ metamaterial-based optical modulators are more than 1000 times smaller than those from a...
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Headwall Appoints CEO

photonics - Jue, 12/14/2023 - 11:33

Headwall Photonics, a manufacturer of hyperspectral imaging systems and OEM optical spectroscopy devices for applications in remote sensing and industrial machine vision, has appointed Mark Willingham as CEO.

Mark Willingham. Courtesy of Headwall Photonics. Willingham is a seasoned executive with a diverse background in both engineering and business having previously served as vice president and general manager of Dover Motion, a Fortive operating company, as well as senior leadership positions at Labsphere, Manz, and Schiller Automation GmbH & Co. KG. Under his leadership, Headwall aims to expand its market presence and product offerings for hyperspectral imaging, integrated systems, and optical components for OEMs.

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Laser Technology Battles Brain Damage by Assessing TBIs at Point of Care

photonics - Jue, 12/14/2023 - 08:00

The decisions made about patient care in the hour following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) are critical to patient outcome. A hand-held diagnostic device to assess the severity of the injury immediately, at the point of care, could make the difference between a successful outcome or irreversible brain damage following a TBI.

To enable timely intervention, researchers at the University of Birmingham are developing a portable noninvasive diagnostic to quickly measure the extent of cerebral injury. The device uses Raman spectroscopy and fundus imaging of the neuroretina to rapidly acquire a molecular footprint of the TBI biochemistry.

The EyeD device combines modified optics with imaging of the optic nerve, which is done with a...
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Self-Assembled Resonator for Optical Chips Confines Light at Atomic Scale

photonics - Jue, 12/14/2023 - 08:00

Optical resonators increase the strength of light-matter interaction by storing light over a long period of time. The smaller the resonator, the tighter the confinement of light will be, resulting in an even stronger interaction that can be used to produce, for example, better photodetectors or quantum light sources.

Strengthening the interaction of light with matter is a central goal of quantum optics and photonics. The development of an optical resonator that can store light for a long time in a region the size of a single atom would be a big step toward reaching this goal.
An illustration of the core of the photonic cavity that was fabricated as two halves that assembled themselves into one unit. The cavity confines light...
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Rochester’s LLE Awarded Over $500M from US Nuclear Security Administration

photonics - Jue, 12/14/2023 - 08:00

The University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have finalized a cooperative agreement for more than $503 million over five years. The new agreement, covering fiscal years 2024 through 2028, will fund the LLE’s Omega Laser Facility and help drive workforce development efforts. The latest agreement is the eighth one between NNSA and LLE and represents a 23% increase in funding over the previous agreement, which the parties reached in 2019.

The LLE serves as NNSA’s high energy density (HED) user facility, supporting mission-critical research activities, educational experiences, and workforce preparation for...
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Myrias Optics Secures $3M to Support AR/VR, Machine Vision Optics Offerings

photonics - Jue, 12/14/2023 - 08:00

University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst spinout company Myrias Optics has secured a $3 million seed investment. Myrias, a developer of all-inorganic printed meta-optics, said that it will use the funding to meet growing customer demand and interest in the company’s structure, materials, and process technology platform.

The company is targeting applications in augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), consumer electronics, machine vision, advanced robotics, automotive light detection and ranging, defense, and aerospace. According to Myrias CEO Patrick Tan, the company already has multiple Tier 1 customers engaged in AR/VR and consumer electronics applications. These applications, he said, can benefit from cost, performance,...
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Ayar Labs Names CEO; Bia Analytical Taps Executives: People in the News: 12/13/2023

photonics - Mié, 12/13/2023 - 08:00

Ayar Labs appointed company co-founder and CTO Mark Wade CEO. Prior to founding Ayar, Wade and his co-founders invented technology at MIT and the University of California from 2010 to 2015 that led to the formation of the silicon photonics company. Wade succeeds Charles Wuischpard, who will continue to serve in an advisory capacity before he transitions out of the company in mid-January.
Mark Wade. Courtesy of Ayar Labs. BELFAST, Northern Ireland — In situ test solutions developer Bia Analytical appointed Simon Cole CEO and Gareth Burns CTO. Cole has worked in the software and technology industry for over 25 years and was a founder and most recently CEO of Automated Intelligence Ltd. Burns has co-founded and held the position of...
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$10B Earmarked for Development of Extreme-UV Lithography Center

photonics - Mié, 12/13/2023 - 08:00

A high-numerical aperture extreme-ultraviolet (NA EUV) lithography center is set to be built at the NanoTech Complex semiconductor research facility in Albany, N.Y.

The state of New York partnered with IBM, Micron, Applied Materials, and Tokyo Electron, among others, to invest in expanding NY CREATES’ Albany NanoTech Complex where IBM is one of the key members.

The $10 billion investment will lead to the first and only publicly owned high NA EUV center in North America.
From right: IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul, and leaders from the semiconductor industry at the announcement of the high NA EUV center. Courtesy of Mike Groll/Office of Gov. Kathy Hochul. The initiative, which...
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BAE Systems Is Recipient of First CHIPS Act Funding Award

photonics - Mié, 12/13/2023 - 08:00
BAE Systems has received an approximately $35 million award from the U.S. Department of Commerce to modernize its Microelectronics Center (MEC) in Nashua, N.H. The award is the first funding announcement as part of the CHIPS and Science Act, which was designed to strengthen American manufacturing, supply chains, and national security. The legislation became law last year.

BAE Systems’ MEC is a 110,000-sq-ft U.S. Department of Defense-accredited, semiconductor chip fabrication and foundry facility that develops advanced semiconductor technologies beyond those available commercially to meet demanding military requirements. It is one of the only domestic defense-centric 6-in. gallium arsenide and gallium nitride high electron...
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EUV Sources Combine to Track Molecular Dissociation

photonics - Mar, 12/12/2023 - 08:00

Reportedly for the first time, scientists have combined a broadband extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) probe pulse from high-order harmonic generation (HHG) with a free-electron laser (FEL) pump pulse to observe photodissociation pathways leading to fragments in different quantum states. The team, led by Christian Ott at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, temporally resolved a quantum mechanical dissociation mechanism of a specific O2+ state into two competing channels by measuring the resonances of ionic and neutral fragments.

The ability to initiate targeted electronic or molecular processes while performing an independent read-out of quantum-mechanical state information about a molecule or its individual fragments, using two...
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Optofluidic Fabrication Yields Any-Environment Reflective Display

photonics - Mar, 12/12/2023 - 08:00

With the advent of the IoT, there is increased need to display large amounts of information to people quickly and without distortion in all types of lighting conditions. Though transmissive and emissive displays such as LEDs and OLEDs are widely used, reflective displays are more capable of providing comfortable readability and clear vision in outdoor strong-light environments with low energy consumption. Examples of commercially available reflective displays include electrophoretic displays (EPDs), interferometric modulator displays, electrowetting displays, cholesteric liquid crystal displays, and photonic crystal displays.

According to researchers led by the International Joint Laboratory of Optofluidic Technology and System at...
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BluGlass Wins Contract, Acquires GaNWorks Foundry

photonics - Lun, 12/11/2023 - 08:00
BluGlass has signed a $1.8 million contract with North Carolina State University (NCSU) for laser development as part of the Commercial Leap Ahead for Wide Bandgap Semiconductors (CLAWS) Hub. This initial contract is for development work in fiscal year 2024 and supports the Microelectronics Commons program.

Established by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Microelectronics Commons is a collaborative capability-building program for defense and dual-use technologies. Led by NCSU, the CLAWS Hub is one of eight innovation hubs under the Microelectronics Commons program and has been awarded $39.4 million for the base year of performance. The CLAWS Hub comprises seven members: BluGlass, Coherent, Wolfspeed, General Electric, Adroit...
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DOE Fuels Fusion Research with $42M-Backed Hubs

photonics - Lun, 12/11/2023 - 08:00

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has unveiled a $42 million initiative to establish three research hubs — at the University of Rochester (UR), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Colorado State University (CSU) — to address critical work in fusion energy. The effort stems from the Inertial Fusion Energy Science and Technology Accelerated Research (IFE-STAR) program, which the DOE announced in May.

IFE-STAR projects will develop high-gain target designs; high-efficiency lasers at high repetition rates; and IFE-relevant fusion target manufacturing, tracking, and engagement. Supported by the DOE Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), this project will establish the foundational science and technology for a...
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James Wyant, University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences Namesake, Dies at 80

photonics - Vie, 12/08/2023 - 15:56

James Wyant, the founding dean and namesake of the University of Arizona James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, died Dec. 8, the University of Arizona announced. Wyant was 80 years old.

Wyant’s research focused on applying interferometry to metrology problems in fields including data storage, semiconductors, optical fabrication, and biomedicine. Wyant served as a professor, dean, business leader, and philanthropist throughout his career, as well as president of both OSA (now Optica) and SPIE. As director of the University of Arizona’s Optical Science Center, Wyant oversaw the center’s transition to a college in 2005. In 2019, the University of Arizona renamed the college in Wyant’s honor.

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Pulsar Photonics to Relocate Corporate Office; Applied Materials, CEA-Leti Form Joint Lab: Week in Brief: 12/8/23

photonics - Vie, 12/08/2023 - 08:00

Pulsar Photonics held a groundbreaking ceremony to launch construction of a corporate headquarters to be located in Aachen, Germany. The company was originally located on the premises of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT (Fraunhofer ILT), also in Aachen, when it was established in 2013. The company is now based Herzogenrath, Germany. Members of Pulsar’s and Walbert-Schmitz GmbH & Co. KG’s management at the groundbreaking ceremony. Courtesy of Pulsar Photonics.
ABINGDON, England — The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) awarded £11.6 million ($14.6 million) in support of innovative technologies for fusion energy. Nine recipient organizations were awarded a total of 10 contracts. Recipient...
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Nüvü Enters Quantum Compute Effort with Partners Infleqtion, Riverlane

photonics - Vie, 12/08/2023 - 08:00

Nüvü Cameras, a developer of ultrasensitive imaging technology, has partnered with quantum computing company Riverlane and quantum technology firm Infleqtion to develop imaging systems to measure qubit states — considered a vital capability to enable quantum computers to scale. The trio have entered into the Scalable Qubit Array Detection for Rydberg Quantum Computers project to improve the readout of the status of the qubits used in these systems.

The project will focus on neutral atom qubits used by Infleqtion’s quantum computing platform. Accurate knowledge of the state of these atoms is crucial for the quantum computer to perform its operations. This requires high detection sensitivity, accurate...
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