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Photonis, a leading electro-optic manufacturer, has supplied key instrumentation that has aided in the achievement of laser fusion ignition. On 13 December 2022, The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced the first-ever, controlled laser fusion reaction to produce scientific energy breakeven, achieved at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) … Continue reading
Detecting single photons is hard. Not because they are strange wonders of quantum mechanics, but because there are simply too many of them. One has a similar problem counting the number of drops of water in the ocean. It is relatively simple to turn a single particle of light into a machine-readable signal. Photomultiplier tubes … Continue reading
A previous PHILTEC Application Note “Bending Light“ showed that the light beam emitted from a fiber optic probe can be redirected to a different emission angle by polishing the fibers at an angle to the probe axis. A new customer wanted to measure turbine speed by sensing the passage of 1 mm thick blades. 1-mm thick … Continue reading
Photonis Nuclear Instrumentation has been a global leader in designing and manufacturing Neutron and Gamma Detectors in the nuclear industry for more than 50 years. Safety is their overriding priority. Photonis contributes to the safety system of Instrumentation and Control (I&C) systems with detectors for reactor instrumentation (ex-core and in-core) based on fission chambers, boron-lined … Continue reading
Enabling technological breakthroughs with innovative imaging and detection solutions, precise instrumentation is a key requirement to measuring and analyzing complex or unknown physical phenomena. Over the last century, many research projects have aimed at better understanding the infinitely small at imperceptible scale. Whether the application requires ion, electron or photon detection, Photonis has the right … Continue reading
How can two mistrustful parties fairly toss a coin? As it turns out, this problem of weak coin flipping (WCF) is a fundamental cryptographic primitive, where quantum WCF can achieve theoretically perfect information security over modern communication networks. In a recent paper, researchers from Sorbonne Université, the University of Vienna, California Institute of Technology and … Continue reading