UWaterloo IQC Selects Laser from Zecotek Medical Systems

Zecotek Medical Systems Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, a developer of photonic and biophotonic technologies used in the high-tech industry and medical diagnostics, today announced that its continuous-wave narrow-band titanium:sapphire laser, model TIS-FD-08/A-scan-WV, has been selected by the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) in Ontario. The ultrawide tunable laser will be used by the institute in the field of nano-optics (the investigation of single semiconductor quantum dots) and quantum computing. Zecotek's Ti:sapphire lasers are manufactured under contract by Tekhnoscan Lasers of Novosibirsk, Russia.

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Glossary

nano: An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
photonics: The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
quantum dots: A quantum dot is a nanoscale semiconductor structure, typically composed of materials like cadmium selenide or indium arsenide, that exhibits unique quantum mechanical properties. These properties arise from the confinement of electrons within the dot, leading to discrete energy levels, or "quantization" of energy, similar to the behavior of individual atoms or molecules. Quantum dots have a size on the order of a few nanometers and can emit or absorb photons (light) with precise wavelengths,...

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