Photonics
Early commercialmomentum 34482 papers in 3 months (-48% yearly)$1.5B raised in 12 months30 companies
Using light instead of electrons to move, switch and process data, and to sense the world with lasers.
Why early commercial: NVIDIA announced Spectrum-X and Quantum-X silicon photonics switches with co-packaged optics built with TSMC and optics suppliers. Mar 18, 2025
Dots under a month: dated events tracked here that month.
26 events
About photonics here
- Sub-areas
- Silicon photonics, Co-packaged optics, Optical interconnects and circuit switching, Optical computing, Lasers and light sources, Lidar, Thin-film lithium niobate
- Stage evidence
- Early commercial, Mar 18, 2025: NVIDIA announced Spectrum-X and Quantum-X silicon photonics switches with co-packaged optics built with TSMC and optics suppliers. nvidianews.nvidia.com
- Momentum
- 34 of 100: the mean of its ranks among the tracked fields for paper growth (0), funding in 12 months (50) and events in 90 days (53). Method
- Papers
- 3,777 in the 12 months ending two months ago, -48% against the 12 before (OpenAlex topics, journal and conference papers).
- Tracked here since
- Sep 25, 2026
Changes to this field
| Date | Change | ||
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| Sep 25, 2026 | PhotonicsTechnology: Added | seed | nvidianews.nvidia.com |