Editor’s Picks
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Photonic Collaborating With Microsoft To Power Global Quantum Ecosystem
11/8/2023
Photonic Inc., a company building one of the world’s first scalable, fault-tolerant and unified quantum computing and networking platforms, based on photonically linked silicon spin qubits, today announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft.
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Unraveling The Light Of Fireflies
12/17/2014
Fireflies used rapid light flashes to communicate. This "bioluminescence" is an intriguing phenomenon that has many potential applications, from drug testing and monitoring water contamination, and even lighting up streets using glow-in-dark trees and plants.
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Quantum Communication: How To Outwit Noise
3/29/2017
How to reliably transfer quantum information when the connecting channels are impacted by detrimental noise? Scientists at the University of Innsbruck and TU Wien (Vienna) have presented new solutions to this problem.
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US Government Grants Sensors Unlimited Four Small Business Innovation Research Contracts
7/15/2003
Awards Advance Pioneering InGaAs Imaging R&D...
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ABET Approves Criteria For Optics And Photonics Engineering Undergraduate Degrees In United States
11/11/2013
Recent approval by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) for program criteria for optics and photonics engineering in undergraduate degrees confirms the field as one of the critical technologies of the 21st century, say the effort's backers. ABET approved the newly developed criteria during its October board meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Powerful Gallium Nitride Red Light-Emitting Diodes Made With Europium And Magnesium Codoping
6/27/2013
Toyohashi Tech researchers fabricate powerful red light-emitting diodes by codoping GaN with Eu and Mg.
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Doing Photon Upconversion A Solid—Crystals That Convert Light To More Useful Wavelengths
11/29/2021
Solid-solution organic crystals have been brought into the quest for superior photon upconversion materials, which transform presently wasted long-wavelength light into more useful shorter wavelength light.
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Electrons Flying "Backwards" In Saturn’s Sky
3/6/2006
Polar lights are fascinating to look at on Earth. On other planets, they can also be spectacular. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenberg, Lindau, Germany, have now observed Saturn’s polar region using the particle spectrometer MIMI, on the Cassini Space Probe...
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Bright Ideas: Rubin Observatory Telescope Has World's Highest Resolution Camera, Low-Cost Underwater Microscope Could Save Seaweed
10/26/2021
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. In this week's edition, acquisitions by Ouster and Jenoptik are expanding each's portfolio, the University of Arkansas is pursuing low-cost, high-performance IR camera development, and imec is introducing a breathalyzer to test for COVID-19.
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New Type Of Indoor Solar Cells For Smart Connected Devices
3/5/2020
In a future where most things in our everyday life are connected through the internet, devices and sensors will need to run without wires or batteries. In a new article in Chemical Science, researchers from Uppsala University present a new type of dye-sensitised solar cells that harvest light from indoor lamps.