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10 Dec 25
Cambridge spin-out Nu Quantum raises $60M in series A round

Oversubscribed funding round thought to be the largest ever for a pure-play quantum networking company.

10 Dec 25
2026 SPIE Franz Hillenkamp Postdoc Fellowship awarded to Teng Liu

$75,000 annual award to support Liu’s translational work in optoretinography.

10 Dec 25
ViaLase clinical trial treats US patient with laser-based glaucoma therapy

Evaluation of company's femtosecond device continues its path to commercialization.

10 Dec 25
TNO Labs to design Keck Observatory’s adaptive secondary mirror

Mirror to use hybrid variable reluctance technology to improve view from Maunakea, Hawaiʻi.

09 Dec 25
imec achieves wafer-scale fabrication of solid-state nanopores using EUV

Enables scalable precision biosensing applications in life sciences and healthcare.

09 Dec 25
Scottish laser innovation center receives £8M from UK Government

Contribution to industry made by Fraunhofer CAP recognized in deal spread over next 4 years.

09 Dec 25
Taiwan’s UMC to mass-produce imec's silicon photonics technology

Licensing deal sees imec-developed process featuring co-packaged optics shift to full-size wafer production.

09 Dec 25
University of Colorado microscope shows new details of neuron behavior

Miniaturized MiniVolt device catches voltage spikes in live animals for better view of brain activity.

08 Dec 25
ETH Zurich microscopy method identifies how influenza viruses infect cells

Combined AFM and fluorescence approach enables live and high-resolution imaging.

05 Dec 25
Sydney researchers tame ‘noisy’ light in tiny lasers

Findings pave the way for next-generation GPS, quantum machines and communications technology.

05 Dec 25
Self-consumption of solar power rises sharply in Germany

With grid feed-in of 60 TWh in 2024, SC was 17% of net solar electricity generation.

04 Dec 25
Fraunhofer IOF redesigns thulium fiber laser to beat the heat

Switching from diode pumping at 793 nm to laser pumping at 1.9 µm boosts efficiency.

 
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