Tag: photonics

• Designing space telescopes the size of a dinner plate

  [ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Could Future Telescopes Do Without the Mirror? Tomorrow’s Hubble might be the size of a dinner plate. For Air & Space Magazine: Today’s telescopes can see better and farther […]

  Matthew R. Francis

  February 18, 2018

  Smithsonian Air and Space

  photonics, space telescopes, telescopes

• Twisted light on a silicon chip

  (In honor of Terry Pratchett, I almost wrote that “Twisted light? Onna chip?”, but that would probably confuse 90% of my readers.) Light is used to carry data, but mostly we don’t use the properties of the photons themselves to convey information. Quantum communication, among other applications, could use the state of the photon to […]

  Matthew R. Francis

  October 18, 2012

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  photonics, quantum communication