Quantum

Credit: Caroline Perron
Pierre Luc Thériault, a Ph.D. student in engineering physics, aligns the team’s experimental setup.
A new type of organic thin film manipulates light in ways not currently possible on today’s silicon photonic chips—and placing it directly onto silicon opens the door to optical...
June 2, 2026
FIGURE 1. AI-generated image depicts the advantage of the stable, telecom-ready CN center defect complex in silicon (right) over the more fragile T center.
May 26, 2026
FIGURE 1. A superconducting quantum processor is not only a chip. It is a cold signal system that must move control, readout, timing, and diagnostic information through a tight refrigerator without adding too much heat or clutter.
May 7, 2026
FIGURE 1. Comparison of laser frequency deviation: The unlocked laser (gray) exhibits significant environmental drift, while the analog lock (blue) suppresses most of this noise but is limited by hardware-induced drift and component tolerances. The digital implementation (green) leverages high-speed DSP to achieve a near-zero error signal and provide the superior stability required.
April 29, 2026
Credit: Haoran Ren
Mosaic pattern artwork that inspired this work.
April 15, 2026
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NIST scientist Nikolai Klimov holds a PIC with tweezers.
April 8, 2026
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Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
April 7, 2026
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12- and 24-channel high-accuracy fiber arrays.
March 19, 2026
Credit: Bowen Li
Adam Shaw, Anna Soper, Danial Shadmany, and Da Yeon Koh in front of the cavity array microscope apparatus.
March 4, 2026

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