An article by Dolphin Research breaks down Lumentum: its share price has risen nearly tenfold in one year, its market value exceeds 70 billion US dollars, and Nvidia invested 2 billion US dollars for a stake in March 2026. The article argues that no matter how optical module form factors change, the position of high-value, barrier-protected optical engines remains solid.
A team from the State Key Laboratory of Ultra-Intense Laser Science and Technology at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) achieved few-cycle nonlinear pulse compression in a dispersion-engineered folded multi-pass cell, producing high-power few-cycle ultrafast laser pulses. The results were published in Optics Letters.
A team led by researcher Wei Chaoyang at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics has published a review systematically covering the full technology chain of CO2 laser processing of fused silica optical components, from fundamental physical mechanisms to advanced functional applications.
A team led by researcher Tian Ye and academician Li Ruxin at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics has proposed a new mechanism in which intense lasers excite surface waves on microwires that interact with relativistic charged particles to efficiently modulate spin. The approach is universal for leptons and ions and applies to particles at energies of GeV and even TeV.
A team from the State Key Laboratory of Ultra-Intense Laser Science and Technology at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) achieved, for the first time, all-optical arbitrary control of chirality and ellipticity in solid-state high harmonics through dynamical symmetry engineering and quantum geometric phase manipulation.
Why we recommend it: The original article presents an all-optical means of controlling solid-state high-harmonic polarization, relevant to circularly polarized attosecond light sources
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A team led by researcher Hu Lili at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, studied how compositional substitution in neodymium-doped phosphate laser glass affects structure and performance, providing a basis for Nd:glass materials used in high-repetition-rate lasers.
The article profiles Friendess, which holds about 60% of China's low- and medium-power laser cutting control system market and has consistently posted gross margins close to 80%.
Jixi Semiconductor, an incubated company of the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics, has completed a Pre-A financing round worth tens of millions of yuan, jointly invested by Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Fund, CASSTAR and Zhongying Venture Capital. The funds will be used for PCSEL (photonic crystal surface-emitting laser) product R&D and capacity expansion.
The article analyzes the Beijing Stock Exchange IPO of Jinan Senfeng Laser. Seventy percent of the company's revenue comes from overseas, and the actual controllers, the couple Li Fengxi, are bound by a valuation adjustment mechanism agreement.
AI computing is driving the adoption of liquid cooling, and laser welding of liquid-cold plates determines product performance, reliability and mass-production capability.
A team led by Yang Shanglu at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics has suppressed brittle intermetallic compounds in laser joining of dissimilar Ti/Ni materials, improving joint reliability.
Hamamatsu China held an SLM industrial laser processing seminar in Shenzhen on September 8, bringing together nearly 200 experts to exchange views on ultrafast laser precision manufacturing and micro- and nano-processing applications.
The Joint Laboratory for High-Power Laser Physics at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics has proposed a measurement method for nonlinear phase shift (B-integral) in high-power laser facilities.
Amid price wars and homogenization, the article explores new growth engines for China's semiconductor lasers in areas such as AI optical communications.
High-power laser crystals are used in ultra-intense, ultra-short laser systems and other applications, with CASTECH a representative domestic supplier.
Beijing Zolix Laser's STAR Market IPO application was accepted on June 30. Performance has rebounded, and existing shareholders cashed out before the filing.