Quantum Research & Innovation: Welcome!
There are so many intriguing research & development (R&D) advances going on within the quantum realm—all at once, everywhere around the globe—that it’s nearly impossible to keep up with them all. But we’ll bring you as many of the coolest ones as we can via a mix of contributed articles and staff-written features.
We'll also introduce you to quantum companies and people doing amazing things within this space, and provide analyst updates about how the quantum realm and its supply chain are evolving.
It’s truly mindbending how much quantum R&D is underway—and its potential to revolutionize so many fields.
In this issue, our cover story highlights quantum-inspired phase imaging work led by Radek Lapkiewicz’s Quantum Imaging Lab at the University of Warsaw in Poland—and a big thank-you to Jerzy Szuniewicz for our fantastic cover image!
We also have fabulous contributed pieces from Quantum Science and Alice & Bob, an introduction to Vescent and Quantum Corridor, and a timely quantum supply chain update from Doug Finke of Global Quantum Intelligence.
To anyone who loves physics, photonics, or simply wants to learn more about quantum R&D: this one’s for you.
About the Author
Sally Cole Johnson
Editor in Chief
Sally Cole Johnson is Laser Focus World’s editor in chief, and she has more than 25 years’ experience as a science and technology journalist. She specializes in physics and semiconductors, and wrote for the American Institute of Physics for more than 15 years, and also covered theoretical physics and neuroscience for the Kavli Foundation, and complexity for the Santa Fe Institute. Johnson has also written extensively about military embedded systems, high-performance computing, software-defined networks, and infosec. She is a member of the National Association of Science Writers (since 2001).
When she isn’t writing about optics, photonics, or quantum advances, you can find her outside in northern NH in the garden with birds landing in her hand or heading for the mountains with her bike, skis, or crampons and ice axe.