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artist's representation of laser pulses on a waveguide

Mar 16, 2026

A Clear Roadmap for Engineering Combs of Light

Insights into electro-optic frequency combs could lead to new applications

Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Industry, Materials, Optics / Photonics, Quantum Engineering, Research, Technology

illustrations of twisted photonic crystals with left- and right-handed beams

Mar 11, 2026

A Dynamic Twist of Light’s ‘Handedness’

MEMS-photonic device achieves tunable intrinsic optical chirality for new sensing, quantum tools

Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Optics / Photonics, Quantum Engineering, Research

Illustration of a Raman-suppressed, X-cut thin film lithium niobate racetrack microresonator used for microcomb generation

Feb 19, 2026

Generating Micro-Combs of Light

Breakthrough in chip-scale photonic systems for sensing, communication

Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Optics / Photonics, Quantum Engineering, Research, Technology

A fabricated micromirror array, a micromirror next to a penny, and a half-inch diameter commercial mirror

Feb 17, 2026

Microscopic Mirrors for Future Quantum Networks

Innovative fabrication method for high-performance optical resonators

Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Optics / Photonics, Quantum Engineering, Research, Technology

Harvard SEAS student Yi Zhu and staff member Lizette Ortega, along with five high school and undergraduate students standing on a staircase

Sep 12, 2025

Quantum Engineering in 90 Seconds

Harvard Quantum Shorts videos make fundamental concepts accessible and fun

Academics, Quantum Engineering

artistic representation of metasurface quantum graphs

Jul 24, 2025

Could Metasurfaces Be The Next Quantum Information Processors?

Researchers blend theoretical insight and precision experiments to entangle photons on an ultra-thin chip

Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Optics / Photonics, Quantum Engineering, Research

flowers outside SEC building on Harvard campus

Jul 15, 2025

3 tech solutions to societal needs will get help moving to market

Harvard Office of Technology Development

Projects targeting heart health, data demands, quantum computing win Grid Accelerator awards

Applied Physics, Bioengineering, Health / Medicine, Materials, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Optics / Photonics, Quantum Engineering, Research

Jul 14, 2025

Patterns of Patterns: Exploring Supermoiré Engineering

Twisted trilayer graphene reveals new quantum effects

Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Materials, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Quantum Engineering, Research, Technology

Harvard SEAS student Gregory Cunningham at a work bench

May 19, 2025

Graduate student profile: Gregory Cunningham

On the cutting edge of the quantum computing revolution

Applied Physics, Graduate Student Profile, Quantum Engineering

optical micrograph of microwave-optical transducer device

Apr 2, 2025

A router for photons

Transducer could enable superconducting quantum networks

Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Industry, Materials, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Optics / Photonics, Quantum Engineering, Research, Technology

Abhishek Banerjee (from left), Philip Kim, and Zeyu Hao

Mar 3, 2025

Exploring superconducting electrons in twisted graphene

The Harvard Gazette

Applied Physics, Quantum Engineering

Feb 27, 2025

Spinning into quantum research

Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D. student Aaron Day shares some key everyday items he uses in researching semiconductors for quantum applications

Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Graduate Student Profile, Materials, Quantum Engineering, Research, Technology

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