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BluGlass to collaborate with Coherent. Tuesday 22nd September 2026 Companies to develop novel GaN-based device for emerging scientific and medical applications Australian firm BluGlass has entered into an early-stage collaboration with photonics giant Coherent Corp to co-develop a novel GaN-based device targeting scientific and medical markets. This initial feasibility study is expected to run for three to five months and will evaluate the compatibility of the companies' proprietary processes. Valued at $200k, the collaboration combines BluGlass' complementary expertise in proprietary GaN epitaxial growth and semiconductor laser development with Coherent's leadership in photonics, advanced manufacturing, and market access. Under the agreement, the companies will jointly evaluate device architectures and manufacturing techniques to enable high-performance visible wavelength lasers for demanding scientific instrumentation and medical applications. Initial development discussions have commenced, including device architecture options, epitaxial structure designs, and process integration. BluGlass CEO Jim Haden said: "Coherent's decision to collaborate with BluGlass is a strong vote of confidence in its GaN epitaxy and laser capabilities, reinforcing its growing industry reputation for developing differentiated technology solutions to support next-generation applications. "While the initial phase of this collaboration focuses on advancing a novel device architecture, it has the longer- term potential to address high-value opportunities in scientific and medical applications. The collaboration with this industry leader expands our GaN laser portfolio and, more importantly, extends our reach into key scientific and medical markets that demand precision photonic performance."

Coherent showcases new optical innovations to scale AI infrastructure at ECOC 2026. 17 hours ago Coherent has unveiled a wide range of new optical technologies and live demonstrations aimed at helping customers scale AI infrastructure, at ECOC 2026 in Málaga. Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR) has announced new optical technologies and live demonstrations designed to help customers scale AI infrastructure, at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2026 in Málaga, Spain. At Stand 2100, Hall 2, Coherent is showcasing innovations spanning AI data centre connectivity, co-packaged optics (CPO) and near-packaged optics (NPO), next-generation pluggable transceivers, optical transport, specialty fibres, optical circuit switching, advanced materials, and thermal management for rising power density. The company also introduced PhotonLink, a new integrated optics platform bringing together Coherent's optical technologies and integration capabilities to support CPO, NPO and emerging chip-to-chip connectivity, combining components and complete optical assemblies with manufacturing at scale. Further details on PhotonLink are due to be announced separately. "Scaling AI infrastructure requires more than bandwidth, it requires solving power, integration and thermal challenges together," said Dr. Sanjai Parthasarathi, Chief Marketing Officer at Coherent. "At ECOC, we are demonstrating how Coherent's expertise across materials, components and optical systems helps customers address those challenges, from connections near compute to links between data centres." Featured technology demonstrations. Coherent's demonstrations show how its vertical integration across materials, devices, components, modules and systems supports different AI connectivity architectures, including scale-across, scale-out, scale-up and chip-to-chip. Highlights include a compact 3.2T pluggable transceiver with dual 1.6T optical paths in an OSFP-size package, using eight 425G PAM4 line-side optical lanes, Coherent's differential EMLs and photodiodes, pointing toward next-generation 400G-per-lane optical connectivity; a 6.4T NPO optical engine combining silicon photonics, fibre attach technology, ELSFPs and Coherent laser technology for high-density AI scale-up and scale-out fabrics; high-density 2D VCSEL and photodiode arrays for parallel optical architectures in CPO and NPO low-latency connectivity; and the LS200 full C-band pluggable optical line system for datacentre interconnect and transport applications. Optical components, assemblies and modules. Coherent is also showcasing a range of new products and emerging technologies, including FlexConnect, a detachable fibre array unit connector for CPO applications; OptiAlign, a high-precision fibre array unit for CPO applications; OptiFocus, a two-in-one coupling lens design for ELS; FiberPack, a passive fibre assembly kit for scale-up and scale-out architectures; OptiPolar Array X, a multi-channel polarization beam splitter array; a 2D micro-VCSEL and photodiode array for NPO or CPO architectures; specialty fibres including polarization-maintaining, mode-matched and multi-core fibre; an ultra-high-power continuous-wave laser; and the Pluggable Optical Line System (POLS), a full C-band optical line system supporting up to 32 DWDM wavelengths and up to 25.6 Tbps over links from 2km to 200km. Thermal management and partner demonstrations. Coherent is also showing Thermadite materials, diamond-based solutions and other advanced materials designed to address the growing power density and cooling needs of AI infrastructure. Alongside partner Quside, the company is demonstrating quantum random number generation for encryption using live quantum entropy, and with CUbIQ, Coherent is taking part in a quantum key distribution demonstration in a compact pluggable architecture. Coherent executives are also contributing to the ECOC technical programme and Market Focus sessions throughout the week, covering topics including AI data centre infrastructure, CPO, optical interconnect scaling, advanced materials, coherent-lite optics and satellite connectivity. Visitors can see the demonstrations and meet Coherent's team at Stand 2100, Hall 2, FYCMA, Málaga, from 21 to 23 September.