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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.

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. Now an RIT researcher has teamed up with experts at the University of Rochester to create a different kind of laser – a laser for sound, using the optical tweezer technique invented by Ashkin.

A Rochester Institute of Technology professor will be part of a small team of scientists helping to contribute to NASA’s new mission SPHEREx. Assistant Professor Michael Zemcov will be one of the 19 co-investigators on the mission. The mission will be used to explore the origins of the universe.

NASA has announced a two-year space mission to study the beginnings and evolution of the universe and determine how common the ingredients for life are within the planetary systems in our galaxy, the Milky Way.

The Photonics for Quantum Workshop is coming to RIT later on this week, and we give you a preview of what will be happening at the conference.