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In this episode: AI-enhanced imaging produces clearer images, iPronics and Xanadu receive significant funding, and a new optical fiber type shows promise for quantum signal processing.

This podcast explores how precision motion, intelligent alignment, and automation technologies are enabling that transition by transforming photonics manufacturing from a serial, labor-intensive process into a highly automated, high-throughput production environment, making large-scale deployment of optical interconnects both practical and economically viable.

In this episode: Engineers create a semiconductor chip that can change its properties in response to light, the week in photonics business news, and researchers generate 18-attosecond isolated light pulses.

This episode of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Jennifer Kehlet Barton, Ph.D., Professor and Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona.

In this episode: A 3D printing approach creates solid objects in less than 8 seconds, this week's photonics business headlines, and researchers demonstrate a gamechanging all-optical photonic time crystal.

Jérémy Picot-Clémente, EPIC’s Photonics Technologies program manager, talks to Daniel Kraus, CEO of Opto, a Germany-based producer of advanced AI-enabled microscope sensors for machine builders and system integrators.

In this episode: Light-based underwater robotics shows promise for identifying untapped natural resources, the latest business news in quantum, and scientists discover an energy-efficient way to achieve quantum entanglement.

Automated imaging devices GANscan and BlurryScope show how acquisition and reconstruction can be codesigned—as long as validation boundaries remain explicit.

This episode of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features our Light News roundup of what's happening in the business realm.

Astronomers discover an extremely bright ‘Little Red Dot’ within the earliest galaxies of the Universe—dating back a few hundred million years after the Big Bang—and it appears to be a new type of astrophysical object.

The mission: A nine-hour access window to create a high-res digital twin of the Liberty Bell forced our team to combine four forms of optical capture and check every dataset before leaving Philadelphia.

In this episode: A perception-based AR display design approach, a strategic collaboration could boost deep-tech commercialization, 2027 Innovators Awards call for entries, and a new approach to scaling quantum technologies.

In this episode: Researchers design scalable solar panels for recycling plastics, this week's photonics business news, and an ultrablack coating combats light pollution.

In this episode: Raman spectroscopy detects counterfeit alcohol, Laser Focus World's 2027 Innovators Awards are now open for entries, and quantum interference control via directional photocurrent.

Scientists are now harnessing one of the most sophisticated visual systems in nature—the mantis shrimp—with the goal of making cancer surgery more effective via more thorough evaluation of lymph nodes.

In this episode: A biosensor assesses traumatic brain injury, the week in photonics business news, and physicists reach a milestone on the path to large-scale quantum sensors.

Advanced LiDAR modules can simultaneously deliver multiple data streams, including depth maps, infrared imagery, reflectance information, ambient light measurements, and confidence metrics.