Photonic

A strategic partnership has been announced between image sensor technology specialist, Singular Photonics, and optical technology distributor AMS Technologies. The partnership means Singular’s image sensors based on single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) will be available to European customers. AMS will be the primary distribution and support partner for European OEMs, research labs, and system integrators. Singular provides on-chip computation to ...

Q.Ant will demonstrate of native analogue photonic processing at ISC 2025, the high-performance computing conference. “For the first time, attendees will be able to interact directly with functional photonic computing, witnessing how light can drive energy and computational efficiency for AI, physics simulations, and other complex scientific workloads”. according to the company. “Q.Ant is attacking two of the biggest challenges ...

Imec and TNO have launched the Holst Centre Photonics Lab forphotonics research and development in the Netherlands. By advancing photonics research and fostering collaboration between industry and academia, the lab aims to bridge the gap between innovation and industrialization for applications in sectors such as automotive, healthcare, and data communications. The new lab is located at High Tech Campus Eindhoven ...

Singular Photonics has spun out of the University of Edinburgh to offer two ultra-sensitive camera chips based on SPADs – single-photon avalanche detectors. Both have in-sensor digital signal processing. Development has been lead by Professor Robert Henderson, head of Edinburgh’s CMOS Sensors and Systems Group, and a pioneer of SPAD-based image sensors: he co-designed one in 2005, and in 2013 ...

BBN Technologies, of the RTX Group, is working to deliver a prototype photonic chip that uses exotic quantum states of “squeezed light”. It is part of DARPA’s INSPIRED (Intensity Squeezed Photonic Integration with Revolutionary Detection) programme. DARPA is the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The custom-designed prototype requires detection sensitivity 16 dB below the fundamental “shot noise” limit, highlights ...

PhotonDelta, the European hub for photonics, will launch a worldwide competition for new applications for photonics chips at PIC Summit 2024 (Eindhoven 15 October). Partners include imec, LioniX International, Smart Photonics, Phix Photonics Assembly, Ephiphan and Bright Photonics and engineering community platform Werolver. Engineers are invited to use photonics ICs in designs to tackle challenges in, for example, healthcare, AI, ...

An optical transceiver for spatial light transmission, the P16548-01AT, supports full duplex bidirectional communication up to 1.25Gbps over distances up to 100mm.     The compact integrated optical transmitter and receiver maintains performance even during communication between a stationary object and those rotating 360°, said Hamamatsu Photonics. The transceiver enables high speed, spatial light transmission for cable-free optical data comms. ...

Intending to map the ground from small aircraft and drones, researchers in China have made a singe-photon radar. It achieves resolution better than 40cm from 2.1km altitude using around two photons per pixel, in the face of 10,000 daylight noise photons per pixel. Created by the University of Science and Technology of China, the lidar combines three 150mA 1.55μm lasers ...

Hamamatsu Photonics has launched a TO-8 canned SPAD (single photon avalanche photodiode) with an in-built thermoelectric cooler. Called S16835, there are two models, which differ in the width* of their sensors: 54µm or 100µm. In standard operating conditions (25°C ambient, -20°C SPAD) typical dark currents are 15 or 60 count/s respectively (50 or 200 count/s max). Terminal capacitance and gain ...

Oxford University spin-out Lumai has secured a £1.1m Innovate UK Smart Grant to commercialise its all-optical artificial intelligence processing technology. The money was awarded in conjunction with The University of Oxford, and follows funding from IP Group and Runa Capital. Its intellectual property covers optical matrix multiplication, electro-optic neural network training and all-optical neural network training. “Optics is a promising ...