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Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
This episode of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Dr. Talya Vaknin, head of research at LightSolver.
June 30, 2026
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June 17, 2026
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Zheru Qiu and colleague Xuan Yang in the lab with the team’s on-chip ultrafast laser.
June 12, 2026
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Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
June 2, 2026
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Pierre Luc Thériault, a Ph.D. student in engineering physics, aligns the team’s experimental setup.
June 2, 2026
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Light Mkhumbuza, a graduate student at Wits University’s School of Physics, who ran the team’s experiments.
June 1, 2026
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Researchers at Caltech designed an approach for guiding light on silicon wafers with low signal loss comparable to that of optical fiber at visible wavelengths, which paves the way for a new generation of PICs.
May 29, 2026
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Kirill Lezhnin with his white board.
May 14, 2026
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3D illustration of the team’s device, in which an external microwave signal induces gain modulation along the entire semiconductor laser to generate widely tunable modelocked pulses/frequency combs.
May 4, 2026

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