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03 Mar 26
Ayar Labs closes $500M venture round

Series E fundraising will support move to volume production for co-packaged optics technology.

03 Mar 26
Nvidia backs Lumentum and Coherent with $4BN cash investment

Lumentum to build a new device fab to meet anticipated laser demand as the AI chip giant agrees huge purchase commitments.

26 Feb 26
Innoviz sales up as key customers ramp autonomous platforms

Israeli lidar firm benefiting from what it sees as a transformational shift to 'physical AI'.

25 Feb 26
Exosens confident of double-digit annual growth in strong defense market

French electro-optics firm enjoying robust demand for image intensifier tubes critical to night vision applications.

25 Feb 26
Myrias Optics closes $2.1M seed round

University of Massachusetts Amherst spin-out is working to scale production of wafer-level metaoptics.

19 Feb 26
Masimo agrees $10BN Danaher switch

Developer of optical pulse oximetry devices for blood oxygen monitoring to join Danaher's diagnostics segment.

17 Feb 26
Jenoptik confirms drop in annual sales

But the German optics giant is optimistic of a return to growth this year as demand in key market sector recovers.

17 Feb 26
Laser fusion startup Inertia Enterprises raises $450M for pilot plant

Livermore company was co-founded by National Ignition Facility research leaders Annie Kritcher and Mike Dunne.

11 Feb 26
ams Osram cuts costs again with loss of 2000 jobs

LED and photonics powerhouse also cutting its use of gold following recent surge in prices of precious metals.

11 Feb 26
Lidar meets AI vision as Ouster and StereoLabs join forces

Cash-plus-stock acquisition by the US-based lidar company to create 'world's most capable perception platform'.

10 Feb 26
EOS to scale high-energy laser production for weapons at Singapore site

Australian developer of laser weapons technology says it has orders for 100 kW systems from two countries.

05 Feb 26
ams-Osram sells non-optical & mixed-signal sensor division to Infineon for €570M

Resets Austrian vendor as “leader in digital photonics”, while reducing its pro-forma leverage ratio to 2.5.

 
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