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Optica
Optica, Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide.
About Optica
Optica is dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving and dissemination of knowledge in optics and photonics worldwide. Founded in 1916, it is the leading organization for scientists, engineers, business professionals, students and others interested in the science of light. Optica’s renowned publications, meetings, online resources and in-person activities fuel discoveries, shape real-life applications and accelerate scientific, technical and educational achievement.
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Signals from Optica
17 published signals
Presence & Recognition
Optica is hosting the fifth Photonic Enabled Cloud Computing Summit over two full days at the HPE Aspiration Dome in Sunnyvale, California, from October 20 to 21.
Reported by Jose Pozo
Strategy & Corporate Development
Optica highlights that XIVER does not offer a PDK and works with customers from the earliest design stage on design for manufacturing, industrialising it, and running production up to 70,000 wafers a year in-house.
Reported by Jose Pozo
Strategy & Corporate Development
Optica announced that XIVER, the former Philips MEMS foundry at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, was sold to a group of Dutch private investors in January 2025 and took over as CEO in June 2025.
Reported by Jose Pozo
Presence & Recognition
Optica announced that Wil Van de Wiel will participate in Panel 4 at the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum 2026 to discuss supply chain resilience.
Reported by Jose Pozo
Presence & Recognition
Optica is hosting an upcoming webinar titled Beyond Early Career: What’s Next for Our Members on 28 September 2026 at 13:00 EDT featuring Optica Ambassadors Tatevik Chalyan and Alvaro Casas-Bedoya.
Reported by Genaro Montanez
Presence & Recognition
Optica colleague Jon Pugh previewed the University of Bristol's Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus opening in Central Bristol starting September 7.
Reported by Jose Pozo
Presence & Recognition
Optica colleague Jon Pugh previewed the University of Bristol's Innovation Boost arriving in Central Bristol starting September 7.
Reported by Jose Pozo
Strategy & Corporate Development
Optica rebranded its photonic chip fab from Sparc Foundry to Ardora III-V.
Reported by Jose Pozo
Presence & Recognition
Optica participated in the PhotonFirst Grand Tour Part Two in Alkmaar, Northern Netherlands.
Reported by Jose Pozo
Presence & Recognition
Optica participated in the PhotonFirst Grand Tour Part One in Alkmaar, The Netherlands, to discuss photonics supply chain requirements for defence applications.
Reported by Jose Pozo
Presence & Recognition
Optica Student Chapter program at Columbia University organized a successful one-day research symposium bringing together more than 70 students and postdoctoral researchers from nearly 15 universities and industry research labs across the New York City metropolitan area.
Reported by Genaro Montanez
Presence & Recognition
Optica Student Chapter program at Columbia University brought together students and early-career researchers to learn, connect, and build community.
Reported by Genaro Montanez
Customers & Market
Optica Quantum Industry Summit participant Monarch Quantum held more than 60 million dollars in customer contracts and raised 55 million this year.
Reported by Jose Pozo
Presence & Recognition
Optica Quantum Industry Summit featured a session where chair Tim Day emphasized that end users and integrators should focus on what they need rather than what they already sell.
Reported by Jose Pozo
Products & Services
Optica noted that the Coronagraph of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope carries two deformable mirrors about 5 cm across, each with more than 1600 actuators from Xinetics, Inc. at Northrop Grumman.
Reported by Jose Pozo
Products & Services
Optica noted that Teledyne delivered 28 flight-grade units for the Wide Field Instrument of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, meeting or exceeding specifications on quantum efficiency, noise, and image persistence.
Reported by Jose Pozo
Products & Services
Optica announced that the Wide Field Instrument of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a 300-megapixel infrared camera made from 18 arrays, each 4096 by 4096 pixels on a 10 micron pitch.
Reported by Jose Pozo