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31. An On-Chip Time-Lens Generates Ultrafast Pulses 11/16/2022

    Femtosecond pulsed lasers — which emit light in ultrafast bursts lasting a millionth of a billionth of a second — are powerful tools used in a range of applications from medicine and manufacturing, to sensing and precision measurements of space and time.

32. Atos And IQM Partner Up In Quantum Simulation 11/16/2022

    Atos and IQM today announce the signature of a partnership to deliver end-to-end quantum computing technologies and capabilities, as part of the Group’s hybrid computing strategy.

33. Bright Ideas — New Laser Beam Steering Device Coming, German Armed Forces Test Fire HEL Weapon Against Drones 11/16/2022

    Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in optics and photonics. This week, a University of Texas professor begins the exploration of an optical laser beam steering device for 3D sensing in autonomous cars and the German armed forces successfully conducted the first operational test-firing of a high-energy laser (HEL) weapon against drones aboard a German Navy warship.

34. KYOCERA Develops New GaN Laser Chip, Mass-Produced From Silicon Working Substrate 11/15/2022

    Kyocera Corporation has developed a new thin-film process technology for making unique silicon (Si) substrates for gallium nitride (GaN)-based micro-light sources, including short-cavity lasers and micro-LEDs.

35. IQM: Unimon — A New Qubit To Boost Quantum Computers For Useful Applications 11/15/2022

    A group of scientists from IQM Quantum Computers, Aalto University, and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have discovered a new superconducting qubit, the unimon, to increase the accuracy of quantum computations.

36. Fluxonium Qubits To Help Bringing The Creation Of A Quantum Computer Closer 11/15/2022

    Russian scientists from University of Science and Technology MISIS and Bauman Moscow State Technical University were one of the first in the world to implement a two-qubit operation using superconducting fluxonium qubits.

37. Using Quantum Sensor Technology To Improve Brain Tumor Operations 11/15/2022

    Removing a brain tumor presents surgeons with special challenges: They must remove the tumor without damaging healthy brain tissue.

38. Lightwave Logic Recieves U.S. Patent For Hybrid Photonics That Improves Modulator Fabrication 11/15/2022

    Lightwave Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ: LWLG), a technology platform company leveraging its proprietary electro-optic polymers to transmit data at higher speeds with less power, today announced the issuance of a U.S. patent, the application of which was announced in April 2022, on a new invention that will simplify polymer modulator fabrication when integrated with silicon photonics for high-volume foundry manufacturing applications.

39. Spiderweb-Like Lasers Can Emit Light In Controlled Colours 11/14/2022

    The system, invented by a team led by researchers at Imperial College London with partners in Italy and Switzerland, could be used in new sensing and computing applications. The team are already collaborating with research and industrial partners across Europe to explore applications in machine learning.

40. POET To Use Lumentum’s High Speed DMLs For 400G/800G/1.6T Data Center Solutions 11/14/2022

    POET Technologies Inc., the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer, Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) and light sources for the data center, tele-communication and artificial intelligence markets, today announced that it will use high-speed directly modulated laser (DML) technology from Lumentum Holdings Inc. in POET’s transmit optical engines to enable high volume, low power, and cost-efficient 400G, 800G, and 1.6T pluggable transceivers for hyperscale data centers.