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Advanced Technology - Inventing the technological building blocks of future systems

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 Technology

Advanced Imager Technology
Chemical, Microsystem, and Nanoscale Technologies
Laser Technology and Applications
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.

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.

Water droplets are inserted into the microhydraulic actuator, which rotates when voltage is applied to electrodes that pull the droplets in one direction. This disc-shaped actuator's inner diameter is five millimeters. Photo: Glen Cooper

Using electricity and water, a new kind of motor can slide microrobots into motion

Nov 13

A textile is woven with fibers that have semiconductor light-emitting diodes embedded into their core. Photo: Nicole Fandel

Fibers embedded with electronics are putting fabrics to work

Oct 19

a 3D printed circular structure made of triblock copolymer composite inks.

IEEE symposium brings together the best in radio science

Oct 1

Researchers test the prototype standoff microwave imaging system. The antennas emit radio signals that reflect off the person standing in front of the array; the system processes the reflections to create the image on the monitors in the background.

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.

TESS's cameras, which will monitor planets passing in front of stars, were designed and built by Lincoln Laboratory engineers. Illustration: Chester Beals

space

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

A new planet hunter will spend the next two years searching for exoplanets, including those that could support life.

The Laboratory's advanced work in miniaturized electronics enabled the development of EnteroPhone™.

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.

Researchers conducted vapor measurements in situ with canines. The canines walked up onto the wooden platform to smell a training object while the mass spectrometer validated the presence of trace explosive vapors on the object.

chemical technologies

Mass Spectrometer for Canine Training

The mass spectrometer, an ultra-sensitive vapor detection system, allows handlers to verify the samples used to train bomb-sniffing dogs.

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

Sarah Adler

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

Chemical, Microsystem, and Nanoscale Technologies

Jeffrey Chou - Photonics Research Scientist

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

Patricia Reed - Laser Systems Engineer

Unique fabrics woven with microstructured polymer fibers and containing microelectronics will be transitioned into integrated systems at the Defense Fabric Discovery Center.

Defense Fabric Discovery Center

Staff in the Electronic-Photonic Integration Facility fabricate components, circuits, and subsystems for both internal and external partners.

Electronic-Photonic Integration Facility

The Microelectronics Laboratory covers 70,000 square feet.

Microelectronics Laboratory

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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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