Advanced Technology
Inventing the technological building blocks of future systems
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 Technology Groups
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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Featured Projects
advanced imaging
Video-Rate Standoff Microwave Imaging System
The system can rapidly and discreetly detect threat items concealed under clothes or hidden in bags of people in crowded public spaces.
space
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
A new planet hunter will spend the next two years searching for exoplanets, including those that could support life.
bioengineering
EnteroPhone™
A wireless, ingestible device monitors heart and breathing rates by listening to the body's sounds and senses core temperature, all from within the gastrointestinal tract.
sensors
Laser Aircraft Strike Suppression Optical System
A system that detects laser beams being shone into the sky and alerts police of their source can help protect pilots and aircraft.
Laboratory Stories
Although I am a relatively new employee, I feel great pride in the contributions I am able to make to my group and our partners.
Sarah Adler
Process Engineer
Advanced Technology
The Laboratory provides an atmosphere that fosters personal growth and education – which are very important to me.
Patricia Reed
Laser Systems Engineer
Advanced Technology
Laser Technology and Applications
It's being surrounded by people who are just as curious about science as I am that makes the Laboratory a good fit for me.
Jeffrey Chou
Photonics Research Scientist
Advanced Technology
Advanced Materials and Microsystems
Advancing Our Research
Events
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RAAINS - Recent Advances in AI for National Security
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
Featured Publications
Rapid Quantitative Analysis of Multiple Explosive Compound Classes on a Single Instrument via Flow-Injection Analysis Tandem Mass Spectrometry
May 24
Journal of Forensic Sciences
Optical Nondestructive Dynamic Measurements of Wafer-Scale Encapsulated Nanofluidic Channels
May 20
Applied Optics, vol. 57, no. 15
Highly Efficient All-Optical Beam Modulation Utilizing Thermo-optic Effects
Apr 16
Optics Express, vol. 26, no. 8
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