Photonics/Quantum
We are working to develop and commercialize advanced photonics, cutting-edge technologies that will allow us to process information and energy in a way that can solve some of the world’s most pressing problems.
Photonics for Quantum Workshop
The Photonics for Quantum Workshop brings some of the world’s leading scientists at the intersection of photonics and quantum research to RIT to explore how photonic devices may impact quantum science, technology, and applications. The workshop features international pioneers in the advancement of photonics for quantum devices and in their use in computing, communication, imaging, sensing, and clocks.
Research Centers
Center for Detectors
Designs, develops, and implements new advanced sensor technologies through collaboration with academic researchers, industry engineers, government scientists, and university/college students. The center operates four laboratories and has approximately a dozen funded projects to advance detectors in a broad array of applications.
Nanopower Research Labs
Represents a consortium of five RIT faculty from both the Kate Gleason College of Engineering and the College of Science working on applications of nanomaterials in energy and photonics. Research is focused on the development of new materials and devices for power generation and storage as well as novel materials for photonic and optoelectronic applications.
Semiconductor and Microsystems Fabrication Laboratory
Provides state-of-the-art facilities and support for undergraduate and graduate programs in microelectronic engineering, microsystems, and related disciplines. The facility also provides industrial affiliates in the semiconductor and microsystems industries with applied solutions in microdevice design, process development, microsystem integration, and prototype fabrication.
Learn more about the Semiconductor and Microsystems Fabrication Laboratory
Related Degree Programs
- Applied and Computational Mathematics MS
- Applied Mathematics BS
- Applied Statistics MS
- Applied Statistics and Actuarial Science BS
- Computational Mathematics BS
- Computer Engineering BS
- Computer Engineering MS
- Electrical Engineering BS
- Electrical Engineering MS
- Imaging Science BS
- Imaging Science MS
- Imaging Science Ph.D.
- Manufacturing and Mechanical Systems Integration MS
- Microelectronic Engineering BS
- Microsystems Engineering Ph.D.
- Packaging Science BS
- Physics BS
- Physics MS
- Telecommunications Engineering Technology MS
Latest News
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September 12, 2019
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Scientists developing single photon detector to help search for habitable exoplanets
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.
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August 23, 2019
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RIT researchers help develop practical new method for measuring quantum entanglement
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.
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August 7, 2019
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RIT awarded NSF funding to conceptualize 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.
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April 12, 2019
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RIT researcher collaborates with UR to develop new form of laser for sound
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.
