Communications: Space-based with satellites or Land-based with optical fiber links, lasers with ‘the best’ frequency noise performance and tunability increases bandwidth.  For us end-users, this means faster 100 times faster internet and 10 times less in power consumption. Hence, also sustainable.

Remote Sensing: Remote sensing includes a broad range of applications, whatever it is, lasers are its backbone. Tunable ultra low noise lasers will greatly increase sensitivity, allowing detection at greater distances with better resolution. 

Emerging Quantum Technologies: Cutting-edge lasers are the bread-and-butter for emerging quantum technologies. Whether it's Quantum Communication, Quantum Computing, or Quantum Sensing, emerging quantum technologies require only the best. 

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Laser World Focus:Tunable external-cavity lasers power high-speed coherent transmission

Blumenthal et. al., Frequency-Stabilized Links for Coherent WDM Fiber Interconnects in the Datacenter,  J. Lightwave Technol. 38, 3376-3386 (2020)

• Fritz’ name confuses people from the German community, but he was born and raised in the Philippines. 

• He received the prestigious Erasmus Mundus full Scholarship for a dual M.Sc. from Belgium and Scotland. 

• He finished his PhD with the highest possible mark, supervised by J. Schmiedmayer in the Vienna CoQuS (VCQ) doctoral program, founded by 2022 Nobel Laureate, Anton Zeilinger. 

• He later joined Onur Hosten’s group at ISTA. He helped Onur build and develop his Quantum Sensing experiments, including the groundbreaking laser technology IP of the Tulon Photonics 

• He recently became a BSF fellow class #9 at Wilbe | Home for Scientists Leaders.

• Aisling has an extensive experience spanning different research areas in optics and quantum physics. 

• She obtained her PhD at the University of Paris-Saclay with I. Bouchoule in the team of 2022 Nobel Laureate, Alain Aspect. Along with her extensive academic impact, she has supervised several successful PhD candidates. 

• Upon graduation, she moved to Vienna, Austria, to pursue her research. She acquired her own funding in the form of a competitive ESQ Discovery grant delivered by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 

• After a few months of discussions with Fritz in social events, Aisling joined Fritz and Onur to co-found Tulon Photonics. 

• Onur received his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Paul Kwiat. He was a postdoctoral scholar and then a staff scientist at Stanford University in the group of Mark Kasevich. 

• His work has pushed quantum measurements beyond the quantum limit. He joined IST Austria as an Assistant Professor in 2018, starting the experimental group ‘Quantum Sensing with atoms and Light’. 

• ERC Consolidator grant recipient 2023.

• While his focus will be on his ground-breaking research, his extensive experimental and engineering physics expertise will be at the immediate disposal of Tulon photonics as chief scientific advisor.

• PhD in Quantum Electronics Engineering with Giorgos Katsaros at IST-Austria.

• His work on Ge spin qubits and related readout electronics contributed to several high impact Quantum Technology papers.

• As the first core engineering member of Tulon Photonics, Josip decided to join in co-founding Tulon after a year of prototype development through the FFG spin-off phase.

• 20+ year laser engineer veteran encompassing DPSS laser design, nonlinear optics and ultrafast science

• Worked with Z. Alpichshev (IST-Austria), A. Baltuska (TU Vienna), and even a collaboration with the group of F. Krausz, 2023 Nobel Laureate, between 2007-2009. 

• After seeing the potential of Tulon Photonics, he joined the Tulon team in August 2023.