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This Week in Photonics: Neural Networks Powered by Photonics; DOE's Blueprint for a Quantum Internet; and More (7/30/2020)

This Week in Photonics: Neural Networks Powered by Photonics; DOE's Blueprint for a Quantum Internet; and More
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Thursday, July 30, 2020
 
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Photonic Processing Unit Supports Light Speed Machine Learning
Photonic Processing Unit Supports Light Speed Machine Learning
Substituting a photonic tensor core for existing digital processors such as GPUs, a pair of engineers from George Washington University (GWU) has introduced a new technique for performing high-level neural network computations. In the approach, light energy replaces electricity, processing optical data feeds at a performance rate two to three orders higher than with an electrical tensor processing unit (TPU).
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Light Helps Pump Life into Heart Muscle
Light Helps Pump Life into Heart Muscle
Although it can be difficult to get heart muscle cells to propagate in large numbers, a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota has found a way to use 3D printing and light-induced excitation to create a living heart pump that has broad implications in medicine.
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Ultralow-Loss Integrated Photonics for Lidar
Ultralow-Loss Integrated Photonics for Lidar
Researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Purdue University demonstrated a hybrid approach to on-chip acousto-optic modulation by combining piezoelectric aluminium nitride technology with ultralow-loss silicon nitride integrated photonics.
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AdlOptica GmbH - Aplanatic Objective Aplanatic Objective

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Teledyne e2v (UK) Ltd. - Tetra CMOS Line Scan Image Sensors Tetra CMOS Line Scan Image Sensors

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.: More News

 

US DOE Reveals National Quantum Internet Blueprint to Spur Development of National Quantum Initiative Act  Read Article 

Superresolution Microscopy Images Key Alzheimer’s Protein  Read Article 

TRUMPF Sells Stakes in UWB Chip Developer, Partners with STMicroelectronics for UWB Positioning Technology  Read Article 

Model Guides Precise Formation of Plasmonic Components  Read Article 

Fishbone Waveguide Design Flattens Dispersion, Expands Bandwidth of Frequency Combs  Read Article 

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An Oblique Plane Light-Sheet Microscope with 200-nm-Scale Resolution An Oblique Plane Light-Sheet Microscope with 200-nm-Scale Resolution
In this webinar, UT Southwestern professor Kevin Dean will describe an oblique plane microscope that uses a newly developed glass-tipped objective and an optimized optical train to maximize the speed, field of view, and resolution of the overall imaging system. He will characterize the performance of this microscope, and then demonstrate biological imaging of clathrin-mediated endocytosis, cell migration, natural killer cell induced cytotoxicity, and more. This webinar is sponsored by Applied Scientific Instrumentation; Andor Technology, part of the Oxford Instruments Group; TOPTICA Photonics; and Coherent Inc.

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