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Syntec Optics To Manufacture Over $1M In Advanced Optics For Next Generation U.S. Defense Integrated Optics System
7/12/2024
Syntec Optics (Nasdaq: OPTX), a mission-critical supplier of scientific and technical instruments and defense and aerospace optics to OEMs, today announced it is scheduling to manufacture orders for two critical optics that fit in the next generation military optics systems.
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Oxford Ionics Breaks Global Quantum Performance Records
7/11/2024
Oxford Ionics has demonstrated the highest performing quantum chip in the world, which can be produced at scale in a standard semiconductor fabrication plant.
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Securely Propagating Entanglement At The Push Of A Button
7/11/2024
Entanglement, Einstein's "spooky action at a distance", today is THE tool of quantum information science. It is the essential resource for quantum computers and used to transmit quantum information in a future quantum network. But it is highly sensitive.
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Laser Photonics To Attend NCMS Technology Showcase: Fleet Readiness Center East
7/11/2024
Laser Photonics Corporation (LPC), a leading global developer of industrial laser systems for cleaning and other material processing applications announced today that it is attending this year’s NCMS Technology Showcase Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE).
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Can Humans Observe A Single Particle Of Light? (And What Does That Say About Our Brain?)
7/11/2024
Hoping to learn something about the human brain, Leiden researchers are creating a setup to shoot single photons, particles of light, into someone’s eye. ‘The eye is a passageway to the brain.’
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Light-Induced Meissner Effect In Optically Driven Superconductor
7/10/2024
Superconductivity is a fascinating phenomenon, which allows a material to sustain an electrical current without any loss. This collective quantum behavior of matter only appears in certain conductors at temperatures far below ambient.
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Celebrate Excellence: 2025 SPIE Prism Awards Open For Outstanding Photonics Products
7/10/2024
Applications are now open for the 2025 SPIE Prism Awards. The awards, presented by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, recognize the most innovative optics and photonics products on the market, across the growing range of the technologies’ applications.
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IR Fused Quartz Windows: Innovations And Applications
7/10/2024
Infrared (IR) fused quartz windows have become indispensable components in various scientific and industrial applications.
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Researchers Show Promising Material For Solar Energy Gets Its Curious Boost From Entropy
7/10/2024
Solar energy is critical for a clean-energy future. Traditionally, solar energy is harvested using silicon – the same semiconductor material used in everyday electronic devices.
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SLAC's High-Speed Electron Camera Uncovers A New 'Light-Twisting' Behavior In An Ultrathin Material
7/10/2024
Using SLAC’s instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED), one of the lab’s world-leading tools for ultrafast science, researchers discovered how an ultrathin material can circularly polarize light. This discovery sets up a promising approach to manipulate light for applications in optoelectronic devices.