{"id":10,"date":"2025-02-27T16:22:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/quantum-leap-initiative\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:10:31","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/quantum-leap-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"10\" class=\"elementor elementor-10\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6cf825d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6cf825d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Quantum Leap Initiative brings together a multidisciplinary team of experts working on diverse aspects of quantum technologies \u2013 from integrated quantum photonics to quantum transmission through advanced hollow-core fibers, all the way through quantum metasurfaces and optomechanical transduction techniques \u2013 with the unifying \u00a0research goal of developing solutions for interoperability across platforms and scales and a strong determination to build a competitive workforce in quantum information science and technology (QIST).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1e9248e\" data-id=\"1e9248e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>This initiative is underpinned by the strong photonics capabilities at CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics at UCF, and critically complemented by our academic partners at the Advanced Science Research Center at CUNY, the Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, and the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6f0790a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6f0790a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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