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Photonics Hot List: March 7, 2025

March 7, 2025

In this episode: A light-based comms network allows seamless connectivity in any setting, this week's business news update, and luminescent nanocrystals boost optical computing.

Justine Murphy

In this episode of Photonics Hot List:

Seamless connectivity and real-time data exchange—regardless of the setting or environment—are on the horizon, with a portable, all-light communication network developed by a team from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China. The research was published recently in Optics Express.

In this week’s business news roundup: A new strategic partnership between Lumotive and E-Photonics is set to advance manufacturing of LiDAR and 3D sensing technologies. And CEA-Leti has unveiled the FAMES Pilot Line, meant to boost development of chip architectures.

Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Columbia University, and the Autonomous University of Madrid are now exploring luminescent bistable nanocrystals for faster, more energy-efficient data processing, AI, and optical computing.

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.