Tag: photonics
FACE Foundation funds international optics education collaboration between Rochester and École Centrale Marseille
The grant supports collaboration between US and French institutions at a time when international education and study abroad have been severely impacted by COVID-19.
Photonics researchers report breakthrough in miniaturizing light-based chips
A Rochester team demonstrates a new way to control light as it moves through integrated circuits, paving a research avenue in communications, computing, and photonics research.
Qiang Lin receives nation’s top honor for early-career investigators
Qiang Lin, an expert in integrated quantum photonics and nonlinear nanophotonics at the University of Rochester, is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Startups with University ties win big at Luminate competition
Ovitz and VPG Medical took home first and second prize in this year’s Luminate competition, the world’s largest startup accelerator program for optics, photonics, and imaging technologies.
Creating negative mass particles — and a novel way to generate lasers
Rochester researchers have created particles with negative mass in an atomically thin semiconductor, using a device that creates an optical microcavity.
Statement from High Tech Rochester on $10 Million Photonics Venture Challenge
Start-up companies from across the globe will compete for 10 to 15 slots. At the end of each session, three of the most promising companies in the program will compete for ‘best in class’ investments ranging from $500,000 to $1 million.
$2 million to add efficiency to integrated quantum photonics
Rochester researchers working on the next generation of quantum information processing have received a $2 million boost from the National Science Foundation.
Researchers demonstrate record optical nonlinearity
A team led by Robert Boyd has demonstrated that the transparent, electrical conductor indium tin oxide can result in up to 100 times greater nonlinearity than other known materials, a potential ‘game changer’ for photonics applications.
The future of photonics
“We work on optical bio sensors,” said Dr. Ben Miller, a researcher at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He’s creating a sensor that can detect the presence of hundreds of viruses from a single blood sample, in real time.
New York State awards $9.2 million to renew CEIS as Center for Advanced Technology
The Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS) has been renewed by New York State as one of its Centers for Advanced Technology (CAT) and will receive $9.2 million in funding over the next 10 years.