| | | | | | | | During IEEE’s Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), May 27-30, 2025, at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas, Nvidia’s Nandish Mehta, a senior research scientist, will share a single-mode fiber array alternative to standard polarization-maintaining fiber arrays for copackaged optics—designed to reduce costs... |
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| | | | | | A new way to power space missions piggybacks on bacteria's efficient light-harvesting abilities to create sunlight-powered lasers—and could enable power transmission between satellites and lunar bases, while also advancing Earth-based applications in photonics and quantum technologies. |
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| | | | | | Episode 53 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features our Light News photonics news roundup for May 27, 2025. |
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| | | | | | Billions are currently being invested into quantum computing—and China’s outspending everyone else with an estimated funding of £13.3B ($17.6B), while Europe invested £7.2B ($9.5B), the U.S. £2.1B ($2.7B), Japan £1.8B ($2.3B), and the U.K. £1.3B ($1.7B) in 2022. |
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| | | | | | “Happy accident” leads to discovery that thermally excited states can create quantum superpositions—and there’s more than one type of hot cat state. |
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| | | | | | In this episode: A near-infrared spectroscopy method discovers early infant learning, the latest in business news, and a research team achieves quantum confinement. |
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| | | | Sponsored | | Discover how sapphire-based photonic integrated circuits, enabled by adaptive optics-assisted femtosecond laser direct writing, are revolutionizing space and aerospace technologies with scalable, low-loss, and polarization-independent devices. |
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