Collaborations
RISE Hub
Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun, is the ultimate source of energy for all life on Earth. The dream is to do the same down here, on Earth, in a controlled manner. One of the two most investigated and promising approaches, Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE), uses powerful lasers, which are fundamental tools in IFE research, to heat a small target containing fusible material.
The U.S. Department of Energy unveiled a $42 million program establishing three new hubs to advance foundational IFE science and technology. Texas A&M’s Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (IQSE) is a major player in one of the multi-million-dollar hubs, known as RISE, which will be led by Colorado State University and dedicated to advancing laser-driven fusion energy.
“The RISE hub will become a center of excellence for IFE science and technology to support the DOE’s mission in IFE,” said Dr. Marlan Scully, a University Distinguished Professor and IQSE director.
“The IQSE was built by the visionary Chancellor’s Research Initiative program started by [Texas A&M University System] Chancellor John Sharp,” said Dr. Alexei Sokolov, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and IQSE associate director. “We look forward to bringing the IQSE expertise in exotic laser physics to bear on the laser-fusion promise.”
International Collaborations
Squeezed vacuum states of light improve the sensitivity of interferometric gravitational wave (GW) detectors. Both the Advanced Virgo detector and the Advanced LIGO detectors have been operating with a quantum enhanced sensitivity during their third joint observation run O3. Many years of experimental research focusing on developing the necessary concepts and technologies for the generation and application of squeezed light had been necessary to turn the conceptual idea of a non-classical sensitivity enhancement into a key technology which is now included in the baseline designs of all future earthbound GW interferometers.
Canada
- Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario
- University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Collaborations with Scientists at IQSE:
- Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL
- Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Baylor University, Waco, Texas
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York
- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
- City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- City University of New York, New York
- Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
- Columbia University, New York, New York
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
- Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Intel Corporation, AZ, USA
- JBSA Fort Sam Houston, TX
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
- Johns Hopkins University
- KACST, The National Center for Quantum Optics and Quantum Informatics, Riyadh, Saudi Arab
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- Max Planck Institutes
- Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Mississippi State University, Mississippi
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- National Research Council of Canada, Canada
- National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
- Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario
- Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
- Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- Rice University, Houston, Texas
- Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM
- Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York
- Texas A&M AgriLife Research
- Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD
- United States Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
- University of Arizona, AZ
- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
- University of California, Berkeley, CA
- University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
- University of Maryland, College Park, MD
- University of New Mexico, NM
- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- University of Texas, Austin, TX
- University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
- University of Wisconsin, WI
- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
- Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
- Yale University, New Haven, CT
Publications and Publishing:
This is a partial listing of journals, archives, and databases to which IQSE faculty has contributed to:
- American Chemical Society
- AIP Publishing
- American Physical Society
- Animal Feed Science and Technology
- Cambridge University Press
- Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
- Frontiers
- IEEE Photonics Journal
- IOPscience
- Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology
- MDPI
- Measurement Science and Technology
- Nanophotonics
- Nature
- Optica Publishing Group
- Optics Communications
- Photonics Media
- PNAS
- Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
- SPIE
- Optical and Quantum Sensing and Precision Metrology
- Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging XIX
- Springer
- The European Physical Journal Special Topics