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    Credit: Southwest Research Institute
    FIGURE 1. Southwest Research Institute’s light-gas gun.
    Ultrahigh-speed camera triggering approach—an integrated velocity trap—automatically calculates the arrival time of a projectile from a target via two strategically placed triggers...
    May 12, 2025
    Interface quality achieved with traditional coating process (top) vs. stable, high-quality oxide achieved with Kontrox treatment (bottom).
    A crystalline oxide-based method boosts laser diode performance while curbing catastrophic optical mirror damage (COMD) risks and production costs.
    May 9, 2025
    Credit: Fraunhofer IOF
    A researcher holds a highly reflective mirror for laser applications; the technology is being optimized for laser fusion.
    Highly reflective and thermally stable mirror systems are essential components for commercial laser-driven fusion power plants of the future.
    May 8, 2025
    Credit: Cellid Inc.
    FIGURE 1. Comparison of three optical see-through display methods for AR/MR: Prism type, bird-bath type, and waveguide type.
    Waveguide technology is at the heart of the augmented reality (AR) revolution, and is paving the way for sleek, high-performance, and mass-adopted AR glasses. While challenges...
    May 7, 2025
    Comparison of pluggable optics vs. copackaged optics.
    Small-scale optics will continue to redefine industries, but overcoming design, manufacturing, and cost barriers requires a forward-thinking approach. By leveraging simulations...
    May 5, 2025
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    A comprehensive photonics intellectual property (IP) strategy includes adapting your patent filing strategies and moving beyond simple patent procurement to incorporate trade ...
    May 2, 2025
    FIGURE 1. The tyranny of wires.
    A new design approach replaces the traditional model of individual qubit control with a global control approach to enable multiple qubits to be manipulated via shared control ...
    May 1, 2025
    Aziza Almanakly working on the dilution refrigerator; the quantum interconnect experiment took place inside this dilution refrigerator.
    In this Q&A with Aziza Almanakly, an electrical engineering and computer science graduate student within the Engineering Quantum Systems group of the Research Laboratory of Electronics...
    April 28, 2025
    Credit: Chalmers University of Technology
    FIGURE 1. The new quantum refrigerator, visible as the square chip at the center of the copper enclosure, is built of superconducting qudits to cool a target superconducting qubit.
    An autonomous quantum refrigerator marks a milestone bridging the gap between theoretical concepts in quantum thermodynamics and practical applications for quantum technology....
    April 24, 2025
    Ph.D. student Zane Peterkovic with a photon-counting camera; the screen behind displays the improvement in quality possible with camera optimization.
    With advancing camera technology, wide-field photodetectors with photon-level sensitivity can provide super-resolution, single-molecule tracking, computational imaging, and quantum...
    April 21, 2025
    Credit: Pedro Ornelas
    Two entangled photons, A and B, are engineered to be topological. After passing through a noisy real-world system, the entanglement decays but the topology remains intact.
    Advances in topology work reveal its promise as a tool to embed information into quantum light as well as read it out—forming the basis for a topological alphabet.
    April 14, 2025
    GQI uses a rigorous, data-driven approach to map the quantum ecosystem—systematically tracking over 1,800 quantum technology entities to elucidate the complex network of interrelationships driving field advancements.
    Photonics goes beyond merely enabling quantum advances and becomes one of its core industries.
    Feb. 12, 2025