RTX’s BBN Technologies and Xanadu, in collaboration with the University of Maryland and Raytheon’s Advanced Technology business, are spearheading a groundbreaking project in response to DARPA MTO’s INSPIRED Program. The team aims to develop the INSIGHT device: an integrated, in-package squeezed light generator and homodyne detector. This innovation is designed to achieve an unprecedented detection sensitivity 16 dB below the photon shot noise level, leveraging cutting-edge silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits (SiN PICs) and high-efficiency on-chip detection.

An international team of engineers and physicists have found a way to use quantum light to improve the performance of cutting-edge spectroscopy.

RTX's BBN Technologies is developing next-generation, compact, low-power, deployable photonic sensors that will provide users with better awareness of environmental elements critical to their missions with greater than ten-times the precision of current sensors. This new capability will have widespread defense and commercial applicability, disrupting fields such as LiDAR, fiber-based sensing, biosensing, system and network monitoring, navigation and communications.