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Researchers from RIT’s Future Photon Initiative, in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory, have produced the Department of Defense’s first-ever fully integrated quantum photonics wafer.

RIT will bring international pioneers in the advancement of photonics for quantum devices to campus this summer for a special workshop. The Photonics for Quantum Workshop 2 takes place June 23-25 at the RIT campus.

The optical laser has grown to a $10 billion global technology market since it was invented in 1960, and has led to Nobel prizes for Art Ashkin for developing optical tweezing and Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland for work with pulsed lasers.

A breakthrough in sensor technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology may contribute to finding other planets like ours.

NASA is awarding a team of researchers from RIT and Dartmouth College a grant to develop a detector capable of sensing and counting single photons that could be crucial to future NASA astrophysics missions. The extremely sensitive detector would allow scientists to see the faintest observable objects in space, such as Earth-like planets around other stars.

Scientists at the Rochester Institute of Technology have demonstrated a new method to precisely measure high-dimensional entanglement from minimal data.

Researchers have helped develop a new technique for quantifying entanglement that has major implications for developing the next generation of technology in computing, simulation, secure communication and other fields. The researchers outlined their new method for measuring entanglement in a recent Nature Communications article.

Awarded through the National Science Foundation, the funding will help support the development of a quantum photonics ecosystem at RIT, with a goal of making the school a leader in the field. Quantum photonics focuses on developing photonic-based tools and circuits for use in the quantum space. In other words, light-based circuits used in extremely small and precise technology.

August 7, 2019 (Rochester, NY) – Today, Congressman Joe Morelle announced that $150,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been awarded to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to support a Quantum Photonic Institute.

The National Science Foundation awarded RIT a grant to conceptualize a new institute that would be at the forefront of quantum science and technology. RIT received $150,000 in funding from the NSF’s Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes program to create a plan for an institute that would expand quantum science and technology capabilities through quantum photonic integrated circuits.

Entanglement is the powerful and enigmatic resource central to quantum information processing, which promises capabilities in computing, simulation, secure communication, and metrology beyond what is possible for classical devices.

NASA has selected a new space mission that will help astronomers understand both how our universe evolved and how common are the in-gredients for life in our galaxy’s planetary sys-tems.