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    PODCAST: October 15, 2024 Light News

    Justine Murphy
    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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    Raj Kulkarni
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    Photonics Hot List: October 11, 2024

    Justine Murphy
    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

    Justine Murphy
    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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    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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