Sensors guiding self-driving semitrucks in test runs between Houston and Dallas. A device mounted to aircraft that can precisely map methane leaks in the maze of pipes distributing natural gas to homes and businesses. Tools that plot herbicide-resistant weeds, detect enemy communications and sort recycled plastic.

What all these innovations have in common is photonics — the harnessing of light particles, or photons, in the form of lasers and related technologies. Moreover, all were created by companies in the Gallatin Valley.

by Marshall Swearingen

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Montana Photonics Industry Alliance

The Montana Photonics Industry Alliance serves as a hub for Montana’s optics, photonics, and quantum companies, entrepreneurs, laboratories, and universities to commercialize, grow and sustain globally leading organizations that create high quality jobs and economic opportunity in Montana.