(RTX BBN Technologies: Cambridge, MA) -- RTX BBN Technologies is developing compact, low-power, deployable photonic sensors that will provide users with better awareness of environmental elements critical to their missions with greater than 10 times the precision of current sensors. This new capability will have widespread defense and commercial applicability, disrupting fields such as LiDAR, fiber-based sensing, biosensing, system and network monitoring, navigation, and communications.

As part of DARPA’s Intensity Squeezed Photonic Integration with Revolutionary Detection (INSPIRED) program, the BBN-led team will deliver a prototype photonic chip that uses exotic quantum states of squeezed light to achieve its goals.

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