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Corning and Amazon announced a multibillion-dollar agreement.
Corning will supply optical fiber, cable and connectivity solutions needed for Amazon Web Services. The investment will also enable Corning to create 1,000 new advanced manufacturing jobs.
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Image of the Week: Creating Art with Fruit
Black stripes printed on a sheet of paper reflected from the surface of diluted milk with a few berries.
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In new work, researchers demonstrated an optical chip that delivers femtosecond pulses of laser light with energies above a nanojoule.
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Researchers from the University of Rochester created solar-thermal panels that can remove salt and valuable minerals from ocean water, leaving fresh water but also difficult to mine minerals like lithium.
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Researchers devised a way to make a by-product of paper, lignin, into useful materials (like vanillin and a biodegradable plastic alternative) with just light and ambient conditions.
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Congratulations 🎉 to the winners of the 2026 Optica awards and medals!
Find the full list of recipients in the OPN June issue: https://bit.ly/4ullMzi
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"Several teams are moving beyond laboratory-scale experiments toward real-world demonstrations.”
OPN spoke with Ronald Hanson ahead of his keynote at Quantum 2.0 about the technical hurdles, photonic advances and opportunities shaping the future of #quantum networking. https://bit.ly/438C4R1 💡 ⚛️ 🧪
Researchers showed electrically tunable second-harmonic generation in a device that is tens of times smaller than preexisting ones.
“The most direct applications are nanoscale light sources, reconfigurable optical modulators and detectors for integrated photonic circuits,” https://bit.ly/3Q7GK6G💡⚛️
Image of the Week: Stem Autofluorescence
Autofluorescence image of an avocado (Persea americana) stem cross-section.
[2025 #OPNPhotoContest ]
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