NANJING, China, Nov. 8, 2021 — Researchers from Nanjing University and Sun Yat-sen University developed a quantum communications platform based on a silicon photonic chip with a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD). The chip’s performance enabled the team to realize optimal time-bin Bell-state measurement, and to significantly enhance the key rate in quantum communication. By harnessing the unique high-speed property of the optical waveguide-integrated SNSPD, the dead time of single-photon

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 3, 2021 — Researchers at the University of Virginia developed a tiny optical frequency comb, or microcomb, that uses two-mode squeezing to create unconditional entanglement between continuous optical fields. The miniature, chip-based device lays the...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 2, 2021 — Researchers at the University of Rochester have used a thin-film nanophotonic device and the phenomenon of quantum entanglement to generate very large bandwidth — a record for ultrabroadband, the researchers said. The researchers entangled...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Nov. 1, 2021 — A collaboration between the University of California, Santa Barbara and Cisco Systems seeks to push the boundaries of quantum technologies. Assistant professors Yufei Ding and Galan Moody have received research awards from the technology company to...

CAMBRIDGE, England, Oct. 22, 2021 — Toshiba Europe has developed a chip-based quantum key distribution (QKD) system that could enable mass manufacturing of quantum security technology for a broad range of applications, including Industry 4.0. A QKD chip under test at Toshiba’s...

ROCHSTER, N.Y., Oct. 18, 2021 — Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and national photonic device company AdvR designed and built a quantum chip prototype that the developers say is able to bridge traditional fiber optic networks with quantum computing...

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Oct. 8, 2021 — An optical amplifier developed at Chalmers University of Technology is poised to radically improve optical communications performance. The compact amplifier is designed to fit on a chip and amplify light without generating excess noise. Light-based...

BELLINGHAM, Wash., Oct. 4, 2021 — SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, will provide support through its Endowment Matching Program to two initiatives at universities in the U.K. The program has provided $500,000 to the University of Glasgow to support a...

WÜRZBURG, Germany, Sept. 30, 2021 — Researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Würzburg successfully forced an array of vertical-cavity lasers to act together as a single laser — a highly effective laser network the size of a grain of...

COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 29, 2021 — Using a topological platform — topology is a field of abstract math that underlies some of the most peculiar behaviors of modern materials — researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have proposed a method to make chip-sized...

Sep 24, 2021 — WALTHAM, Mass. — Industrial photonic technology manufacturer Excelitas Technologies opened a new plant for its German subsidiary Qioptiq Photonics in Göttingen, Germany. The facility expands the company’s capacity for assembly of sophisticated...

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Sept. 8, 2021 — Eindhoven Institute of Technology (TU/e) has opened the Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir Institute (EHCI), a photonics and quantum research center. The mission of EHCI is to contribute to a sustainable information society by bringing together TU/e’s...

KONGENS LYNGBY, Denmark, Sept. 2, 2021 — Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have shown that a Fano laser has fundamental advantages over other types of microscopic lasers. The researchers demonstrated that the coherence of a Fano laser can be significantly improved,...

BONN, Germany, Aug. 27, 2021 — Researchers at the University of Bonn have developed a method that significantly shortens the time required to be able to transport individual atoms via laser light in a vacuum. To perform quantum experiments, individual atoms need to be transported...

HAMAMATSU, Japan, Aug. 25, 2021 — Hamamatsu Photonics and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tokyo collaborated on an all-optical, portable gas monitoring system for predicting volcanic eruptions with a high degree of sensitivity. In...

LEMONT, Ill., Aug. 25, 2021 — Three projects at Argonne National Laboratory have received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy in a push to lay the groundwork for breakthroughs in quantum information science. The awards are part of a $61 million investment in quantum...

TORONTO, Aug. 19, 2021 — Xanadu, a full-stack photonic quantum computing company, and imec are partnering to develop the next generation of quantum qubits based on ultralow-loss silicon nitride waveguides. A SiN wafer with photonic integrated circuits manufactured on...

KONGENS LYNGBY, Denmark, Aug. 18, 2021 — A team at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has developed what it calls a “complete platform” for an optical quantum computer. The platform is universal and scalable, the team said, and takes place at room temperature. The...

BONN, Germany, Aug. 18, 2021 — QuNET, a project funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), demonstrated a quantum-secured video call Aug. 10. The call represents a milestone for the project, the goal of which is the application-oriented...

LIVERMORE, Calif., Aug. 17, 2021 — An experiment at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) National Ignition Facility (NIF) has triggered ignition for the first time. Ignition is the process that amplifies energy output from nuclear fusion and that could provide an avenue...

HEFEI, China, Aug. 10, 2021 — A group at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) achieved the high-contrast readout and coherent manipulation of a single silicon carbide divacancy color center electron spin at room...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug 9, 2021 — Led by Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering, Vanderbilt researchers have introduced an approach for trapping and moving a single colloidal nanodiamond with nitrogen-vacancy center using a low-power laser beam. The width of...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Aug. 3, 2021 — A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory proposes that modulated quantum metasurfaces can control all properties of photonic qubits. According to the team, such a breakthrough would affect the fields of quantum information, communications, sensing,...

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 27, 2021 — PsiQuantum has raised $450 million in Series D funding to build the world’s first commercially viable quantum computer, the company said. The company intends to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer supported by a scalable and proven...

Jul 23, 2021 — CORK, Ireland — PhotonicLEAP was awarded over €5 million (approximately $5.89 million, through the EU’s horizon 2020 program) to develop technologies for the production of a surface mount technology (SMT) photonic integrated circuit...