U.N. proclaims 2025 the ‘International Year of Quantum Science and Technology’
To celebrate 100 years of quantum mechanics and increase public awareness of the importance of quantum science and its applications, the United Nations (U.N.) proclaimed 2025 as the “International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.”
We’re fully on board! It’s truly astounding how much quantum innovation is taking place right now—photonics plays an enormous role—and we’re covering as much of it as we can.
In this issue of Quantum Innovators, our cover story features the insanely cool quantum memory drum work by Professor Albert Schliesser’s group at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) in Denmark. Mads Bjerregaard Kristensen, a postdoc who worked on the project, shares their work—and the cover image—with us.
I’m thrilled to have Yole Group’s Eric Mounier share highlights of their recent Quantum Technologies report and why now is the time to invest in quantum technologies. And Daniel Oi, of the University of Strathclyde and U.K. Quantum Communications Hub, walks us through quantum milestones in space and describes what the future of space-based quantum comms might look like.
A big thank-you to everyone who contributed to this issue or talked to us about their amazing quantum work!
About the Author
Sally Cole JohnsonSally 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.