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.

In this episode of Photonics Hot List:

Using a new approach they’ve designed, researchers from the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Bonn in Germany can now imprint a simple lattice structure on a super photon, which could someday make communication tap-proof.

Fiber laser manufacturer IPG Photonics has officially ended all activity in Russia with the sale of its Russian subsidiary, IRE-Polus. And in other business news, Lightwave Logic has named Thomas Connelly Jr. (executive director and CEO of the American Chemical Society) and Yves LeMaitre (a strategic board advisor with Trumpf Photonic Components) to its Board of Directors.

A team from the Quantum Biology Lab at Howard University in Washington D.C. is looking at amyloid fibrils—long seen as a cause of Alzheimer’s and dementia—from a new perspective. They’ve discovered that a quantum optical effect could potentially transform researchers’ understanding of neurological diseases.

About the Author

Justine Murphy | Multimedia Director

Justine Murphy is the multimedia director for Laser Focus World and Vision Systems Design. She is a multiple award-winning writer and editor with more 20 years of experience in newspaper publishing as well as public relations, marketing, and communications. For nearly 10 years, she has covered all facets of the optics and photonics industry as an editor, writer, web news anchor, and podcast host for an internationally reaching magazine publishing company. Her work has earned accolades from the New England Press Association as well as the SIIA/Jesse H. Neal Awards. She received a B.A. from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

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