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An illustration of data being sent across a laser from a small satellite to a ground station on Earth.

Communications system achieves fastest laser link from space yet

November 8, 2022
This rendering shows a novel piece of hardware, called a smart transceiver, that uses technology known as silicon photonics to dramatically accelerate one of the most memory-intensive steps of running a machine-learning model.
In the Media

Deep learning with light

October 21, 2022
MIT news
The 38-foot-wide radome protecting the Multi-Band Test Terminal — a large antenna on an MIT Lincoln Laboratory building rooftop — is shown illuminated at night.

Antenna enables advanced satellite communications testing

August 29, 2022
A quadrant featuring photos of four 2022 high-school summer interns at Lincoln Laboratory.

Lincoln Laboratory launches summer internships for local high schoolers

August 22, 2022
A person with a protective gown and gloves holds a large wafer of integrated circuits. the wafer is vividly multicolored.
Awards

MIT Lincoln Laboratory wins nine R&D 100 Awards

November 2, 2021
The refurbished Lincoln Laboratory Boeing 707 has been a mainstay of many important R&D programs since 1991.

Lincoln Laboratory says good-bye to its airborne test bed

October 28, 2020
This is a photo of a CubeSatpayload application of the TBIRD technology.
Awards

Lincoln Laboratory technologies named 2020 R&D 100 Award winners

October 13, 2020
Artist's depiction of LES-9.

Lincoln Laboratory decommissions Lincoln Experimental Satellite-9

May 20, 2020
A photo of three lasers being transmitted from ground modules
In the Media

NASA's Plan to Turn the ISS Into a Quantum Laser Lab

April 22, 2020
WIRED
NASA will use telescope arrays at Table Mountain, Calif., and White Sands, N.M. to send and receive signals to Orion’s optical communications system. Photo: Robert Lafon / NASA
In the Media

Lunar Pioneers Will Use Lasers to Phone Home

July 22, 2019
IEEE Spectrum
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