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Bright Ideas — Fluids Viable For Freeform Optics, Visible Light Modulators See Improved SWaP
12/1/2021
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. This week, novel approaches are explored in freeform optics and fluorescence imaging, NASA nails down a new date for the James Webb Space Telescope launch, and Optica names its photo contest winners and honorary member award recipient.
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Smart Internet Lab Will Deliver Quantum Data Centre Of The Future
11/26/2021
The University of Bristol’s pioneering Smart Internet Lab will work with industry partners to develop the first blueprint for a quantum data centre, as part of UKRI’s £170 million Commercialising Quantum Technologies Challenge.
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Directional Management Of Interface Defects Achieved In Perovskite Solar Cells
11/24/2021
Organic-inorganic halide perovskite materials have excellent optical capture capacity and carrier conductivity. Perovskite solar cells, with amazing power conversion efficiency, show great application prospects. However, a large number of unfavorable defects, growing up after or during annealing process due to their ionic nature, would lead to sites of nonradiative recombination and accelerate degradation of device efficiency and stability.
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Shifting Colors For On-Chip Photonics
11/24/2021
The ability to precisely control and change properties of a photon, including polarization, position in space, and arrival time, gave rise to a wide range of communication technologies we use today, including the Internet. The next generation of photonic technologies, such as photonic quantum networks and computers, will require even more control over the properties of a photon.
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Bright Ideas — Defense Contractors Tasked With Taking Down Hypersonic Missiles, Record-Breaking Quantum Computer Tops 256 Qubits
11/24/2021
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. This week, the Military Defense Agency picked three contractors to design a Glide Phase Interceptor prototype, a startup claimed its quantum computer has the most qubits (and the best platform), and an electro-topics grad student developed an optical filter that allows sensors and cameras to operate seamlessly in low and bright light situations.
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AdlOptica Objective Lenses Reduce Aberrations And Enable Processing Of Optical Substrates At Multiple Focal Point Depths
11/23/2021
Edmund Optics®, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of optical components, is pleased to offer two new objectives from AdlOptica that enable a growing range of laser optics applications. This product expansion includes objective lenses that minimize optical aberrations for improved focusing and multiple focal depths for advanced material processing.
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‘Magic Wand’ Reveals A Colorful Nano-World
11/23/2021
Scientists have developed new materials for next-generation electronics so tiny that they are not only indistinguishable when closely packed, but they also don’t reflect enough light to show fine details, such as colors, with even the most powerful optical microscopes.
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Fundamental Particles Modelled In Beam Of Light
11/22/2021
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have succeeded in creating an experimental model of an elusive kind of fundamental particle called a skyrmion in a beam of light.
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Mystery Of High-Performing Solar Cell Materials Revealed In Stunning Clarity
11/22/2021
Researchers have visualised, for the first time, why perovskites – materials which could replace silicon in next-generation solar cells - are seemingly so tolerant of defects in their structure. The findings, led by researchers from the University of Cambridge, are published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
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Getting Quantum Dots To Stop Blinking
11/22/2021
Quantum dots, discovered in the 1990s, have a wide range of applications and are perhaps best known for producing vivid colors in some high-end televisions.