Accelink has released its interim earnings forecast, expecting revenue of RMB 400 million to RMB 450 million in the first half of 2026, up 52.16% to 71.18% year on year, with net profit attributable to shareholders of RMB 48 million to RMB 52 million. The company attributes the growth mainly to deliveries of passive optical subcomponents for high-speed data center optical modules and OCS yttrium vanadate crystals, driven by global AI computing infrastructure construction. On capacity, phases one and two of the Hefei yttrium vanadate crystal project are at full production, the Thailand plant is ramping up, and the Zhengzhou plant is expected to begin production in the third quarter of 2026.
Academician Philip Russell of the Russell Center for Advanced Lightwave Science at the Hangzhou Institute of Optics visited the State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications on July 7. He met with President Xu Kun and delivered an academic lecture, with both sides reaching a preliminary agreement to strengthen cooperation. The two sides hope to collaborate on joint student training, academic exchanges, and jointly undertaken projects, particularly in frontier areas such as hollow-core fiber, where each side's strengths in fiber design and fabrication and communications network applications can be combined.
Academician Philip Russell, director of the Russell Center for Advanced Lightwave Science at the Hangzhou Institute of Optics, was invited to attend the 22nd General Assembly of Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, held in Beijing on July 8, where he engaged in academic exchanges with peers from China and abroad. The article notes that the center established industrialization entities including Xinkong Guanglian (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. in 2025, and signed cooperation agreements with Fuchunjiang Photoelectric Group and the research institutes of the three major telecom operators to promote the large-scale application of hollow-core fiber.
CCTV-13's "Oriental Horizon" aired a special report on the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Center on June 19, highlighting the optoelectronic achievement incubation model explored by the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics, which has been put into practice at the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics. The report noted that a laser communication device for inter-satellite communication inside the incubator is undergoing testing, and said the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics has incubated more than 70 achievement commercialization projects centered on hardcore optoelectronic technology in the Yangtze River Delta.
The Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics attended the third Changchun International Optics Expo, held June 12 to 14, together with incubated companies including the Russell Advanced Optical Wave Science Center and Xishi Technology. The Russell Center said its proprietary 'new structure' low-loss hollow-core fiber achieved continuous drawing lengths greater than 15 km, with a minimum loss of about 0.1 dB/km in the telecom band. Xishi Technology showcased optical film thickness measurement and thin-film inspection equipment.
Faibo, an incubated company of the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics, was named among China's Top 10 Optical Industry Technologies of 2025 (optics category) for its distributed fiber-optic acoustic field sensing technology based on multi-domain multiplexing. The competition received 128 entries, and the awards ceremony was held May 18 at the China Optics Valley Science and Technology Convention Center. The technology targets distributed monitoring in power grids, energy and mining, rail transit, oil and gas pipelines, and smart cities.
Teams led by Wang Binhao and Zhang Wenfu at the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics have made a series of advances in silicon-based photonic interconnect chips.
Space-grade radiation-hardened erbium-doped fiber developed by teams led by Hou Chaoqi and Guo Haitao at the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics has completed stable on-orbit verification for spaceborne laser communication.
Guo Haitao's team at the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Mechanics has mastered key full-chain technologies for mid- and long-wave infrared anti-resonant hollow-core fiber.
Zhejiang Daily's front page and Zhejiang TV's Zhejiang News reported that the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics was selected as one of the first group of excellence-level technology enterprise incubators named by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, with 14 incubators nationwide earning the excellence-level designation. The reports said the Russell Center is working with Fuyang Optical Fiber Enterprises to bring hollow-core fiber technology to production lines. The Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics has incubated more than 70 companies, with a combined valuation exceeding 50 billion yuan.
The Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics, together with the Russell Center for Advanced Lightwave Science, Hengying Technology, Chuxin Optoelectronics, Hengmai Optics, Tuozhi Optoelectronics, and Yuexin Microelectronics, will attend LASER World of PHOTONICS CHINA 2026, held from March 18 to 20. The participating companies cover fields including infrared optical materials, semiconductor lasers, ultra-precision machining equipment, microstructured specialty optical fibers, volume grating devices, and high-end analog chips. This year's exhibition brings together more than 1,400 exhibitors from around the world, with an exhibition area exceeding 100,000 square meters.
The National Natural Science Foundation of China international cooperation innovation team project, led by the Russell Center for Advanced Lightwave Science at the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics, was launched at the institute on February 8. The project is headed by Professor Philip Russell, with Professor Wang Pengfei's team at Northeast Normal University as the collaborating institution, and runs from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2028. Focusing on hollow-core fiber, the project addresses challenges such as balancing low loss with high mode purity, controlling broadband ultraviolet pulses, and insufficient mid-infrared pulse performance, through research on optical fiber microstructure design and ultraviolet-to-mid-infrared ultrafast laser technology.
The Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology has released its 2025 list of provincial-level proof-of-concept centers, including the Advanced Optoelectronic Functional Materials Proof-of-Concept Center built by the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics. The article cites Fujia Gallium's gallium oxide project and the Russell Center's progress in continuous hollow-core fiber drawing exceeding 15 kilometers as typical cases.
Hangzhou Daily reported on February 6 that Fuyang is building the Fuchun Chip City integrated circuit industry landmark, mentioning companies incubated by the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics, including Fujia Gallium and Jingfei Semiconductor. The report said Fujia Gallium produced China's first 6-inch gallium oxide single crystal ingot using the VB method in September 2025, the Russell Center's hollow-core fiber continuous drawing exceeded 15 kilometers, and Jingfei Semiconductor mastered laser lift-off technology for 12-inch silicon carbide wafers.
China Unicom Research Institute, the Russell Center for Advanced Lightwave Science at the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics, and Zhejiang Fuchunjiang Optoelectronics signed a strategic cooperation agreement on January 31, focusing on the industrialization of hollow-core fiber and covering joint demonstration projects, industry ecosystem development, and demonstration-line application systems. The original report noted that the Russell Center had previously achieved continuous hollow-core fiber drawing exceeding 15 kilometers, and the Xinkong Guanglian Fuchunjiang Optoelectronics Hollow-Core Fiber Production Base in Fuyang has completed initial validation of the drawing process.
Philip St. John Russell, a professor at the Russell Center for Advanced Lightwave Science at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics and the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, has received the 2025 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Russell proposed the concept of microstructured photonic crystal fiber in 1991, and in 1996 and 1999 led teams that produced the world's first solid-core and hollow-core microstructured fibers, respectively.