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
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.

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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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Captured image of the Large Magellanic Cloud and bright star R.

In the Media

NASA's TESS Shares First Science Image in Hunt to Find New Worlds

Sep 17

NASA

Shawn Reese, an engineering student, had a summer internship at M.I.T.’s Lincoln Laboratory. He is beginning work on a four-year degree in engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Photo: Kayana Szymczak, The New York Times

In the Media

Teaming Up to Get Workers Ready for Technology of the Future

Sep 11

The New York Times

3D Rendering of the Transitioning Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

In the Media

TESS primed and ready to discover distant worlds

Aug 2

Spaceflight Insider

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.