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Featured PostJuly 20, 2026

The People Behind the Light

Most of Lumentum’s work is not visible to the people who rely on it. It happens in cleanrooms, labs, fabs, design reviews, and production meetings - in the careful decisions and repeated steps that allow light to carry information across the world.Behind that work are people, and Lumentum’s recognition as one of Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces in Tech 2026 is their achievement.Awards are…

Heather Paschall

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The Backbone of AI Infrastructure: Why Optical Components Will Define the Next Era of Data Centers

AI Infrastructure Is Becoming a Living System The brain may direct the body, but it relies on the heart, blood vessels, and lungs to circulate ox…

Sri Venkat

June 25, 2026

Reliability Becomes the New Currency: How CPO Is Rewriting Laser Performance

A Formula 1 car doesn't win on horsepower alone. The fastest engines in the sport lose to slower ones every season because reliability—not peak perfor…

Naren Idnani

June 17, 2026

MEMS Mirrors and the Evolution of Optical Switching in AI Data Centers

Why the Optical Layer Needs to Adapt With AI networks continuing to scale, the demands placed on the optical layer inside the data center are cha…

Sheldon McLaughlin

May 28, 2026

Enabling the Next Phase of AI Optical Infrastructure

OFC 2026 Takeaways, Part 2 – From Industry Shifts to Technology Implementation

Christian Urricariet

April 30, 2026

The New Photonics Ecosystem for the AI/ML Infrastructure

OFC 2026 Takeaways, Part 1 – Event and Market Trend Overview

Loukas Paraschis

April 28, 2026

Advanced Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration: Reshaping Photonic Architectures for AI

AI infrastructure growth follows a reinforcing cycle. Larger models drive the need for more hardware. That hardware demand accelerates technology inno…

Matt Guzy

March 31, 2026