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QUANTUM OPTICAL MICROSCOPE
QUANTUM MICROSCOPES TO IMAGE THE OTHERWISE INVISIBLE WHAT IS IT? Quantum-light microscopes provide a unique and versatile tool to accomplish difficult sensing tasks important to the performance of the warfighter. They exploit quantum correlations between photons to...
Daytime Quantum Communication
QUANTUM NETWORKING WITH ENTANGLED PHOTONS WHO WE ARE The Directed Energy Directorate (RD) at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico is home to AFRL’s Freespace Atmospheric Links for Quantum Optical Networks (FALQON) team. This research program integrates expertise in...
AFRL Quantum Labs
AFRL conducts and sponsors research across the globe. Physical laboratories and research positions exist in AFRL locations in various states including New York, New Mexico and Ohio. AFRL Information Directorate in Rome, NY Our quantum research teams located at the...
INTEGRATED PHOTONICS AND PHOTON QUBITS
FROM ULTRAVOILET TO INFRARED The mission of the AFRL's Quantum Information Processing Group is to generate, manipulate/process, distribute and analyze quantum entanglement both locally and distributed over processing nodes in a quantum network consisting of...
Quantum Algorithms
CODING WITH QUBITS Who We Are The AFRL Quantum Algorithms group explores the design and application of quantum algorithms across research topics such as quantum optimization, algorithms, and quantum machine learning. The team also utilizes noisy, intermediate-scale...
SUPERCONDUCTING & HYBRID QUANTUM SYSTEMS
SUPERCONDUCTING QUBIT AND QUANTUM INTERFACE PLATFORMS FOR QUANTUM NETWORKING The superconducting and hybrid quantum systems team at AFRL’s Information Directorate in Rome, New York seeks to develop novel superconducting architectures and cross-modality quantum...
Trapped Ions
QUANTUM NETWORKING WITH TRAPPED IONS AFRL’s trapped ion team investigates quantum mechanics and quantum information science with the long-term goal of constructing a quantum network made for processing and transmitting quantum information. Quantum networks can be used...
UltraCold Atoms
WIELDING THE 5th STATE OF MATTER AFRL’s Quantum Sensing & Timing (QST) group seeks to take advantage of Nobel-Prize winning cold-atoms physics and related techniques to develop solutions for critical DoD problems in positioning, navigation and timing. In 2014, the...
Photonic Microcombs
MINIATURIZING THE QUANTUM WORLD Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) will play a key role in transitioning quantum-enabled technologies beyond the laboratory. While photonic components in the telecommunication bands are relatively commonplace, the infrastructure...
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QUANTUM OPTICAL MICROSCOPE
QUANTUM MICROSCOPES TO IMAGE THE OTHERWISE INVISIBLE WHAT IS IT? Quantum-light microscopes provide a unique and versatile tool to accomplish difficult sensing tasks important to the performance of the warfighter. They exploit quantum correlations between photons to...
Daytime Quantum Communication
QUANTUM NETWORKING WITH ENTANGLED PHOTONS WHO WE ARE The Directed Energy Directorate (RD) at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico is home to AFRL’s Freespace Atmospheric Links for Quantum Optical Networks (FALQON) team. This research program integrates expertise in...
AFRL Quantum Labs
AFRL conducts and sponsors research across the globe. Physical laboratories and research positions exist in AFRL locations in various states including New York, New Mexico and Ohio. AFRL Information Directorate in Rome, NY Our quantum research teams located at the...
INTEGRATED PHOTONICS AND PHOTON QUBITS
FROM ULTRAVOILET TO INFRARED The mission of the AFRL's Quantum Information Processing Group is to generate, manipulate/process, distribute and analyze quantum entanglement both locally and distributed over processing nodes in a quantum network consisting of...
Quantum Algorithms
CODING WITH QUBITS Who We Are The AFRL Quantum Algorithms group explores the design and application of quantum algorithms across research topics such as quantum optimization, algorithms, and quantum machine learning. The team also utilizes noisy, intermediate-scale...
SUPERCONDUCTING & HYBRID QUANTUM SYSTEMS
SUPERCONDUCTING QUBIT AND QUANTUM INTERFACE PLATFORMS FOR QUANTUM NETWORKING The superconducting and hybrid quantum systems team at AFRL’s Information Directorate in Rome, New York seeks to develop novel superconducting architectures and cross-modality quantum...
Trapped Ions
QUANTUM NETWORKING WITH TRAPPED IONS AFRL’s trapped ion team investigates quantum mechanics and quantum information science with the long-term goal of constructing a quantum network made for processing and transmitting quantum information. Quantum networks can be used...
UltraCold Atoms
WIELDING THE 5th STATE OF MATTER AFRL’s Quantum Sensing & Timing (QST) group seeks to take advantage of Nobel-Prize winning cold-atoms physics and related techniques to develop solutions for critical DoD problems in positioning, navigation and timing. In 2014, the...
Photonic Microcombs
MINIATURIZING THE QUANTUM WORLD Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) will play a key role in transitioning quantum-enabled technologies beyond the laboratory. While photonic components in the telecommunication bands are relatively commonplace, the infrastructure...
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Fights On! Issue 77: Fall 2025
Fights On! – Issue 77: Fall 2025 feature image DOWNLOAD PUBLICATION
Small Business Consortia
Tap into industry-specific organizations to connect with other small business owners facing the same challenges and opportunities as you. Advanced Functional Fabrics of America Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), is a non-profit Institute headquartered...
Small Business Academic Connections
We have forged connections with several higher-learning institutions that promote innovation and technological advancement in partnership with the AFRL. Digital Manufacturing & Design Innovation (DMDI) Institute MxD is where innovative manufacturers go to forge...
AFRL Small Business Government Agencies
The United States government provides resources and tools to aid small businesses who are starting the defense contractor process or are actively defense contractors. APEX Accelerators The APEX Accelerators, formerly known as the Procurement Technical Assistance...
AFRL recognizes 2024 Fellows and Early Career honorees
The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, recognized 17 of its scientists and engineers for the 2024 AFRL Fellows and Science and Engineering Early Career Awards, or ECA, program at an award ceremony held at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, Oct. 24, 2024.
