Scientists have developed the first electrically pumped continuous-wave semiconductor laser composed exclusively of elements from the fourth group of the periodic table -- the 'silicon group'.

AMD has acquired Enosemi, a startup designing custom materials to support silicon photonics product development. The terms of the deal, announced Wednesday, weren’t disclosed.

PsiQuantum, the Silicon Valley photonic quantum computing startup, is claiming a significant breakthrough with a new high-volume process it says will be capable of manufacturing million-qubit-scale ...

Laser Photonics Corporation (LPC ... features and cleanroom protocols. This system processes silicon, sapphire, compounds (GaAS, InP, SiCO2, SiGe, etc.), crystal wafers (LiTaO3 and LiNbO3) ...

More information: Bassem Tossoun et al, Large-Scale Integrated Photonic Device Platform for Energy-Efficient AI/ML Accelerators, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2025). DOI ...

Silicon photonics allows for the development of compact and densely packed PICs, enabling the creation of high-density bandwidth connections crucial for AI/ML workloads.

Nvidia has announced the Spectrum-X and Quantum-X silicon photonics networking switches, which they claim lower power consumption and improve deployment speeds. Compared to undisclosed ...

Silicon photonics light the way toward large-scale applications in quantum information. SPIE--International Society for Optics and Photonics. Journal Advanced Photonics DOI 10.1117/1.AP.6.3.036003.

Aside from Ayar and Celestial, the firm competes with Intel in the multibillion-dollar silicon photonics market. Intel claims to have shipped more than 8 billion photonics chips and 3.2 million on ...

“Silicon photonics is all about using light on a chip instead of electricity to make things like communication systems faster and more energy efficient,” Wan explains.

The last missing piece of silicon photonics. Forschungszentrum Juelich. Journal Nature Communications DOI 10.1038/s41467-024-54873-z. Keywords ...