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The US Department of Commerce announced US$2 billion in federal incentives for 9 companies under the CHIPS and Science Act.

The commitment represents one of the largest federal investments in quantum computing hardware to date.

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This Spotlight Summary by Christopher A. Dirdal covers the research: Polarization-independent reciprocal lens based on non-Hermitian complex degenerate bands https://bit.ly/4xk2Wv6

In new work, researchers demonstrated an optical chip that delivers femtosecond pulses of laser light with energies above a nanojoule.

“For more than twenty years, a high-pulse-energy femtosecond laser was widely regarded as a holy grail of integrated photonics. Our result shows that it is not only possible, but that it can be achieved with a surprisingly elegant architecture.” -Tobias Kippenberg, EPFL

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