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PODCAST: October 15, 2024 Light News

Oct. 15, 2024
Episode 21 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features our Light News photonics news roundup for October 15, 2024.

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FIGURE 1. FSOC is emerging as the answer to demands for ever-greater bandwidth in both terrestrial and satellite communications.
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Free-space optical comms: High data-rate connectivity from the ground up

Oct. 14, 2024
Thanks to advances in infrared sensors, free-space optical communication (FSOC) technology is poised to revolutionize connectivity across diverse environments.
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Shan-Wen Tsai (left) and Troy Losey.
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Spin center arrays serve as analog quantum simulators

Oct. 11, 2024
A chain of quantum magnetic objects, a.k.a. spin centers, can simulate a variety of magnetic phases of matter and the transitions between these phases.
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Lumotive’s LM10 chip is designed for a wide range of LiDAR systems.
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Open platforms promise to revolutionize 3D sensing

Oct. 10, 2024
Modular platforms are poised to revolutionize the 3D sensing arena by tailoring components for precise needs—such as automotive, industrial automation, or service robotics—and...

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SLAC received its first LCLS-II-HE cryomodule from Fermilab on Feb. 18, 2022.

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A microscope image of the thinnest lens in the world.

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Photonics Hot List: October 11, 2024

Oct. 11, 2024
In this episode: a chip-based tractor beam captures bioparticles, the latest business mergers and moves, and a thermal metasurface design controls itself.
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Photonics Hot List: October 4, 2024

Oct. 4, 2024
In this episode: SLAC designs high-energy laser upgrades, optical fiber boosts quantum computing, and LightPath is set to advance military aircraft.
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Photonics Hot List: September 27, 2024

Sept. 27, 2024
In this episode: secure comms could be viable with super photons, some recent photonics business news, and a quantum effect sheds light on the brain.

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