This first of a two-part episode features Dr. Garrett Cole, an associate professor and the Nelson E. Claytor Endowed Chair in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona’s Wyant College of Optical Sciences. He has numerous accolades under this belt, experience as an entrepreneur in startups and major corporations, and has spent years as a

Photonics is undergoing the same transformation the semiconductor industry experienced decades ago; evolving from specialized, low-volume manufacturing into standardized, highly automated, high-volume production.  For decades, electrical interconnects have been the foundation of modern computing. However, as AI workloads drive exponential growth in bandwidth while power budgets remain constrained, copper is approaching its physical and economic

At Nord Quantique, we’re building fault-tolerant quantum computers from the qubit up with the goal of making quantum computing practical at scale. We’re a Canadian company based in Sherbrooke, Québec, where we develop superconducting quantum computers that integrate quantum error correction directly into the hardware. Rather than accept that useful quantum computers will require millions

A group of researchers led by Meng Han, an assistant professor of physics at Kansas State University, recently generated and characterized 18-attosecond isolated light pulses—and these are believed to be the shortest light pulses experimentally measured so far. Ever-shorter and brighter light pulses are a holy grail for ultrafast science, because these pulses offer a