In this episode of Photonics Hot List:
An international collaborative team of researchers can now obtain considerably clearer views of objects in some of the most challenging environments and through obstructions with a novel single-photon LiDAR system. They say it could potentially transform surveillance and security.
A new laser-based artificial neuron can fully emulate the functions, dynamics, and information processing of biological neurons, but with a signal processing speed that’s about a billion times faster. The team in China who developed it say it could further advance quantum computing.
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced $71 million in funding for quantum information research, to be split among 25 different projects, with an eye toward answering fundamental questions about the Universe.
About the Author
Justine Murphy
Multimedia Director, Digital Infrastructure
Justine Murphy is the multimedia director for Endeavor Business Media's Digital Infrastructure Group. 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.