Light-emitting structures that curl off the chip surface could enable advanced displays, high-speed optical communications, and larger-scale quantum computers.
MIT researchers have developed a new photonic chip that can beam light off a chip into free space using microscopic “ski jump” structures, enabling faster optical communication, high-resolution displays, compact LiDAR, and scalable quantum computing. The technology allows thousands of precisely controlled laser beams to project full-color images and control qubits, representing a major advance in photonic chips, free-space optics, and quantum photonics.
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- Dirk Englund
- Nature: “Nanophotonic waveguide chip-to-world beam scanning”
- Research Laboratory of Electronics
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- School of Engineering
- MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
- Quantum Moonshot Program