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Nonlinear Integrated Photonics

Integrated photonics is the optical equivalent to the circuits that make up modern electronic devices. However, instead of routing electrons around a microchip, a photonic integrated circuit (PIC), guides light through nanoscale “waveguides”…

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Optical Atomic Clocks

The precision of a clock is limited by how fast its “pendulum” swings. So, for the past several hundred years, humans have built clocks with faster and faster “pendulums”, trading the actual pendulum for spring-loaded wheels and then rapidly-vibrating quartz oscillators…

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Exoplanet Detection with Astrocombs

Several decades ago, astronomers had no reliable way of detecting planets around distant stars (exoplanets), and many assumed that most of these stars did not have any planets orbiting them. However, recent technological innovations have enabled new methods for finding planets outside of our solar system (exoplanets)…

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