Advanced Technology

R&D in advanced technology focuses on inventing new materials, devices, and components to enable revolutionary system capabilities. We pursue innovation in a wide set of areas, including imagers, lasers, quantum computing, microsystems, RF technology, and chemical sensors.

Advanced Imager Technology
Advanced Materials and Microsystems
Laser Technology and Applications
Microsystems Prototyping Foundry
Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems
RF Technology

Our group has pioneered imaging technologies that have enabled some of the world's most powerful telescopes and cameras for the defense and scientific communities. These technologies include charge-coupled-device (CCD) imagers for astronomical instruments, single-photon-sensitive imagers for foliage-penetrating ladar systems, and digital-pixel focal plane arrays for wide-area infrared cameras.

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When NASA made history in 2013 with the longest laser communication link ever demonstrated (from a Moon-orbiting satellite to Earth), our group was behind the satellite's laser transmitter and the ground terminals' highly sensitive photon detectors that enabled the link. We have a long history of developing advanced solid-state, fiber, and diode laser technologies for the scientific and defense communities.

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In the Media

Massachusetts Microelectronics Internship Program: a big focus on critical tiny components

Sep 27

MIT EECS

Five small 3D-printed vessels of various colors (white, browns) and shapes (cups, pyramid shapes

New method 3D prints glass at low temperatures

Sep 19

A small commercial drone outfitted with four toroidal propellers (each propeller looks like two loops, made of plastic).

Awards

Six Lincoln Laboratory inventions win R&D 100 Awards

Sep 8

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quantum

Compact Optical Trapped-Ion Array Clock

Optical atomic clocks are the most accurate in the world, but they are very large, sensitive instruments. We are transforming the complex components of these clocks into a compact, portable platform.

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microelectronics

Fiber Sensor Array Buoy

A small, low-cost system that leverages long-length fibers embedded with electronics could provide persistent monitoring of the undersea environment.

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Climate Observation

Atmospheric Aerosol Characterization   

We are designing a satellite-based lidar system to categorize aerosols in the atmosphere.

This image shows micro-chips for Super-DICE atop a penny for size reference.

integrated systems

Superconducting Discrete Integrated Circuit Electronics

A technology that allows system developers to combine modules produced by trusted foundries and commercial manufacturers may deliver yield enhancements and power and performance benefits to mission-critical systems.

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I was drawn in by the scope of the technology research being conducted and the opportunities that would be available for me to grow professionally and personally.

Sara Canzano

Advanced Packaging Engineer

Advanced Technology

Advanced Imager Technology

Sara smiles for a photo wearing a green floral shirt. She is outside, with grass in the background.

Within my first few months at the Laboratory, I pitched a new idea for growing quantum diamonds with one of my colleagues, and it was funded internally through the Technology Office.