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| | | | | | Scientists experimentally show electrons form vortices, tornado-like structures, within momentum space—and it’s a milestone for quantum materials research. |
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| | | | | | In this quick Q&A with Scintil Photonics’ Matt Crowley, he introduces the company and shares where photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are headed—if you guessed AI data centers, you’re right. |
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| | | | | | What happens when you combine diamond’s broad spectral transmission range and its Raman frequency shift characteristics with the wavelength-independent nature of vortex beam generation? You get operational wavelengths of vortex beams that can be significantly expanded. |
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| | | | | | Birgit Stiller’s lab at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen and Leibniz University Hannover is pioneering building blocks for optoacoustic neural networks. |
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| | | | | | 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. |
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| | | | | | Laser Focus World invites you to join us on a quantum journey as we share the work of researchers around the globe pushing quantum mechanics closer to real-world applications in quantum computers, quantum networks, and secure encrypted communications. |
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| | | | Sponsored | | Jean-Michel Ménard explores groundbreaking techniques for synthesizing quantum organic materials by combining THz light and metasurfaces, unlocking new possibilities for chemistry, biology, and medicine. |
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