Why Urgency Has Become the New Reality for Integrated Photonics

By Dr Abdul Rahim, Ecosystem Manager, PhotonDelta

PIC Summit USA / 01.02.2027

PIC Summit USA 2027 brings that complete conversation to Sunnyvale. Organized by PhotonDelta, the summit connects North America’s growing integrated photonics community with leading customers, experts, investors, and technologies from around the world.

From Mission to Marketplace: How PhotonDelta’s Future Solutions Programme Addresses the Barriers to Integrated Photonics Adoption

By Peter van Arkel, CTO, PhotonDelta

SMART Photonics Partners with GlobalFoundries to Offer Industry’s First Open Access Foundry Service for Integrated Silicon and Indium Phosphide Photonics Products

Collaboration will enable new types of optical products that benefit from the advantages of both material platforms for AI, data centres, LiDAR and other applications.

CUbIQ Technologies and Coherent Corp. Demonstrate Scalable, Physical-Layer Security for AI Infrastructure

A CV-QKD transceiver in a standard QSFP-28 pluggable runs alongside Coherent 200G FR4 optics tested over an NVIDIA DGX Spark host system via its ConnectX-7 interface, with no changes to the existing network

From lab to space: One of the first TriPleX® photonic integrated circuits in orbit

To realise a novel photonic sensing system, based on a TriPleX® photonic chip, for future planetary exploration, from the lab to a TU Delft-built satellite for an in-orbit demonstration. That is the mission of two teams at TU Delft’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, which are joining forces for the first time. One develops miniature satellites; the other works on advanced photonic chips to search for signs of life.

Rethinking Talent in Integrated Photonics 

Why scaling the industry requires more than technical expertise and what it takes to move from research to real-world impact.

Europe and Taiwan: Complementary Strengths for Scaling Photonic Chips

Across Europe, integrated photonics is moving into a new phase. Alongside world-leading research and innovation, the Netherlands and wider European ecosystem are building the design, fabrication, packaging, and integration capabilities needed to manufacture photonic chips at industrial scale.

KYOCERA Technology Day / 01.10.2026

ITF USA at SEMICON® West / 12.10.2026

The next era of AI will be shaped not only by increasingly powerful models, but by the hardware that makes them possible. From scaling compute in data centres to enabling real-time AI at the edge, advanced semiconductors, photonics, sensing, packaging, and quantum technologies will all play a role. ITF USA at SEMICON West brings together the full AI deep-tech stack to explore the technologies needed to turn the next generation of AI into reality.

Integrated Photonics for Wireless Applications: Enabling Free-Space Optics, 6G, and Beyond

PICs are unlocking faster wireless technologies like FSO, 6G, and ISAC, with real solutions already emerging for today’s biggest challenges.

Aluminium Oxide Photonic Integrated Circuits: Insights from Aluvia Photonics

Aluminum oxide PICs are gaining attention for their broad wavelength coverage, low optical losses, and support for on-chip optical amplification. In this discussion, Steve Stoffels, the CEO of Aluvia Photonics, explains where the platform fits and how teams can design with it.

Beyond the Chip: What Will It Take to Scale Integrated Photonics in Healthcare?

Healthcare is becoming one of the most exciting growth areas for integrated photonics. Across diagnostics, biosensing, medical imaging, ultrasound, and wearable technologies, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are enabling healthcare systems that are smaller, faster, and more capable than ever before.

A Great Idea Is Not Yet a Product: XIVER on Industrialising Integrated Photonics Innovations

XIVER’s Sreekanth Chirayath on why photonic innovations fail on the production line and how designing for manufacturing from the start changes the outcome.

Fotonische chips kansrijk voor moderne defensiesystemen

HOOGERHEIDE, 15 juli 2026 – Nederland heeft een wereldtoppositie in geïntegreerde fotonica, maar de toepassingen van deze technologie voor Defensie zijn nog relatief onbekend. Een studie van PhotonDelta en de Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM) laat zien hoe fotonische chips kunnen bijdragen aan moderne defensiesystemen en roept op tot een programmatische en een nog intensievere samenwerking tussen Defensie, bedrijven, overheden en kennisinstellingen.

QuiX Quantum Announces Carina, the First Universal Photonic Quantum Computing Architecture for Commercial Deployment

Developed for the German Aerospace Center’s Quantum Computing Initiative (DLR QCI), Carina represents a compact, room-temperature foundation for future fault-tolerant quantum computing in data center environments

Inside Photonic Chip Design: Perspectives from Epiphany Design and Bright Photonics

A Q&A with Epiphany Design and Bright Photonics on transforming PIC concepts into manufacturable systems, with practical guidance for teams participating in the Global Photonics Engineering Contest 2026.

Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits: Foundry Insights from New Origin

A discussion with New Origin CEO Twan Korthorst on why SiN is gaining popularity as an integrated photonics platform and how dedicated foundries can take PICs from prototype to production, creating new opportunities for startups and Global Photonics Engineering Contest 2026 participants.

Tomorrow starts today- PIC Summit Europe Pavillion / 04.11.2026

Where cutting-edge technology leads to real-world impact.

PhotonFirst and Curtiss-Wright Announce Collaboration to Bring Integrated Fibre Optic Sensing to Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI)

PhotonFirst, a leading innovator in Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensing technology and integrated photonics, and Curtiss-Wright, a global market leader in Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) solutions, today announced a collaboration to accelerate the adoption of fibre optic sensing technology within the aerospace flight test domain.