{"id":217257,"date":"2025-07-06T02:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T07:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/the-high-tech-wizardry-of-integrated-photonics"},"modified":"2025-07-06T02:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T07:02:34","slug":"the-high-tech-wizardry-of-integrated-photonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/the-high-tech-wizardry-of-integrated-photonics","title":{"rendered":"The high-tech wizardry of integrated photonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-high-tech-wizardry-of-integrated-photonics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d stories and the Disney Channel show \u201cWizards of Waverly Place,\u201d 7-year-old Sabrina Corsetti emphatically declared to her parents one afternoon that she was, in fact, a wizard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad turned to me and said that, if I really wanted to be a wizard, then I should become a physicist. Physicists are the real wizards of the world,\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n<p>That conversation stuck with Corsetti throughout her childhood, all the way up to her decision to double-major in physics and math in college, which set her on a path to MIT, where she is now a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.<\/p>\n<p>While her work may not involve incantations or magic wands, Corsetti\u2019s research centers on an area that often produces astonishing results: integrated photonics. A relatively young field, integrated photonics involves building computer chips that route light instead of electricity, enabling compact and scalable solutions for applications ranging from communications to sensing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>MIT graduate student Sabrina Corsetti is exploring the cutting edge of integrated photonics, which involves building computer chips that route light instead of electricity. Her projects have included a chip-sized 3D printer and miniaturized optical systems for quantum computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d stories and the Disney Channel show \u201cWizards of Waverly Place,\u201d 7-year-old Sabrina Corsetti emphatically declared to her parents one afternoon that she was, in fact, a wizard. \u201cMy dad turned to me and said that, if I really wanted to be a wizard, then I should become a physicist. Physicists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}