Broadband on-chip light delivery addresses individual trapped ions
A planar waveguide lens paired with wafer-scale printed micromirrors delivers wavelengths from 405 to 880 nm to individual calcium and barium ions.
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New measurements change what becomes possible
A concise view of recent results from the group and its collaborators, from nuclear-clock materials to integrated trapped-ion photonics.
Our lab shortlisted for a 2026 Falling Walls breakthrough
Falling Walls selected Eric Hudson for its Physical Sciences shortlist under the banner “Breaking the Wall of Nuclear Quantum Control.”
View the shortlistUCLA-led team selected for National Science Foundation quantum technology award
A team led by Eric Hudson received $4 million through the NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory to design a fault-tolerant trapped-ion quantum computer with 60 logical qubits.
Read the announcementNonlinear dynamics sharpen wideband frequency measurement
Subharmonic excitation of a trapped-ion oscillator improves frequency resolution without requiring fragile nonclassical input states.
Read the researchOptical cycling survives as hydrocarbon molecules grow
A systematic study finds no apparent size limit as optical cycling centers are attached to increasingly large hydrocarbon structures.
Read the researchLaser Mössbauer spectroscopy reaches thorium dioxide
Conversion-electron detection opens nuclear spectroscopy to materials whose band gaps are below the thorium-229 transition energy.
Read the researchBreakthrough: Thorium Nuclear Clock
Eric Hudson joins National Science Foundation News to discuss directly manipulating the energy level of a thorium nucleus with laser light and the path toward extraordinarily precise nuclear clocks.
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