In this episode of Photonics Hot List:
An international collaborative team of researchers can now obtain considerably clearer views of objects in some of the most challenging environments and through obstructions with a novel single-photon LiDAR system. They say it could potentially transform surveillance and security.
A new laser-based artificial neuron can fully emulate the functions, dynamics, and information processing of biological neurons, but with a signal processing speed that’s about a billion times faster. The team in China who developed it say it could further advance quantum computing.
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced $71 million in funding for quantum information research, to be split among 25 different projects, with an eye toward answering fundamental questions about the Universe.
