Summary
Recent advances in atomic physics, nanophotonics, and optical materials engineering have enabled the creation of a diverse range of strongly interacting light-matter hybrid platforms and architectures.
Such light-matter hybrids show promise for realizing new forms of photonic behavior in which light can be endowed with matter-like attributes leading to the formation of photonic molecules, photon ‘fluids’, and other strongly correlated states of light.
The Photon-Efficient Nanoscale Optical Metrology (PhENOM) Disruption Opportunity seeks to harness such light-matter hybrids to demonstrate scalable generation, information-encoding, and detection of loss-resilient and quantum-correlated states of light.
Applications of such loss-resilient photonics include low-light imaging, quantum information science (QIS), and robust communication protocols.