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    A superconducting qubit is coupled to a high coherence microwave resonator, and the qubit can be used to generate a microwave cat state within it.
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    The Vivid Photonics team is working to expand its new SLD into the entire RGB spectrum, with a goal of seamless integration into real-world AR/VR devices and other similar systems.
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    Researchers designed a terahertz near-field imaging approach to examine the inner ear.
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    A team from Cambridge University is uncovering the mysteries of medieval manuscript fragments found hidden in the binding of a 16th century archival register.
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    A researcher holds a highly reflective mirror for laser applications; the technology is being optimized for laser fusion.
    Sally Cole Johnson
    May 8, 2025
    Highly reflective and thermally stable mirror systems are essential components for commercial laser-driven fusion power plants of the future.
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    Justine Murphy
    May 6, 2025
    Episode 50 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Siddharth Ramachandran, distinguished professor of engineering at Boston University.
    FIGURE 1. The tyranny of wires.
    Marco Polini
    May 1, 2025
    A new design approach replaces the traditional model of individual qubit control with a global control approach to enable multiple qubits to be manipulated via shared control ...
    FIGURE 1. Atomically resolved TEM image of a MoSe2 nanodot embedded in WSe2 matrix (a); low magnification TEM image shows MoSe2 nanodots (yellow arrows) dispersed in WSe2 matrix (b).
    April 30, 2025
    Saiphaneendra Bachu, a Penn State alumni, and Prof. Nasim Alem share the work they carried out with colleagues at Penn State University and Universite Paris-Saclay exploring how...
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    Justine Murphy
    April 29, 2025
    Episode 49 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Jana Jágerská, a professor at the Arctic University of Norway whose research interests focus on nanophotonics...

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    Two entangled photons, A and B, are engineered to be topological. After passing through a noisy real-world system, the entanglement decays but the topology remains intact.
    Andrew Forbes
    April 14, 2025
    Advances in topology work reveal its promise as a tool to embed information into quantum light as well as read it out—forming the basis for a topological alphabet.
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