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VOID LATTICE
VOID LATTICE LABS

Experimental systems, on record.

Experimental systems developed inside Void Lattice. Ideas are built, tested, and shaped into future technologies, products, and companies.

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Programmable Light

Experiments in turning software, voltage, geometry, and materials into control over light.

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  1. 01Voltage → phase → light → dataMach–Zehnder Electro-Optic ModulatorApply voltage, change refractive index, shift optical phase, and watch interference redirect light between output ports. Then send a message through it: the link test puts a second chip across a free-space or fibre channel and decodes what arrives.Launch experiment
  2. 02Programmable wavefrontsPhase SteeringExplore how controlled phase differences reshape an optical wavefront and steer light without mechanical motion.Launch experiment
  3. 03Geometry → fieldMetamaterial LabExplore how geometry and material structure alter electromagnetic field behavior.Launch experiment
  4. 04Electromagnetic fieldsField PlaygroundVisualize electromagnetic fields, propagation, interference, and wave behavior interactively.Launch experiment
  5. 05Light that reroutes itselfAutonomous Photonic FabricVL Fabric 01: four wavelengths, six tunable microring routing cells and four destination nodes. Inject a fault — thermal drift, excess loss, a dead coupling region, crosstalk, congestion — and watch the controller observe it, interpret it, choose between retuning a ring and rerouting the channel, and restore service. Reduced-order physics, deterministic rules, every decision shown.Launch experiment
  6. 06Difficult photons, reliable decisionsAdaptive Photonic PerceptionVL AEGIS 01: an electro-optical sensor head where aperture, exposure, gain and polarization are the controls and detection is the consequence. Photon counts, shot noise, contrast, motion smear and the diffraction limit propagate into a deterministic detector that says which physical quantity suppressed it — and an adaptive loop that rotates the analyser or retimes the exposure to fix the measurement.Launch experiment
  7. 07A surface that reads the light it receivesAdaptive Photonic SkinVL SKIN 01: a structured optical surface that captures free-space light, couples part of it into planar waveguides, identifies it with a microring bank and routes the guided fraction to sensors, comms, monitoring or an isolation path. Every incident watt is accounted for — reflected, scattered, absorbed as heat, or guided — and only the guided fraction can be routed at all, which is the distinction the whole lab is built around.Launch experiment
7 interactive experimentsRuns in the browser
02

Structural Playground

Experiments in seeing where a load goes, and which part of the chain runs out first.

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  1. 01Force → path → failure modeLoad Path StudioLoad a lunar landing-leg bracket and watch the force travel from the leg to the vehicle structure, with first-order checks showing which link runs out first.Launch experiment
  2. 02Damage → bypass → governing checkDoubler / Load Path StudioRepair a damaged fastener hole with a doubler and watch the load divide between the remaining ligament and the new path, one fastener at a time, with every failure mode checked against the same solve.Launch experiment
2 interactive experimentsRuns in the browser
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Lattice Studio

Geometry + material + defects → behaviour. An instrument for seeing what a structure is allowed to do.

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  1. 01Geometry × void × defectLattice StudioBuild a lattice, take material out of it on purpose, and measure what it becomes. Compare two geometries at the same density to see what geometry alone changes.Launch experiment
1 tool · VL-T seriesRuns in the browser
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Microreactor

Where the heat goes, and what is left by the time it reaches the connector.

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  1. 01Heat → cycle → connectorPortable MicroreactorDrive a conceptual portable microreactor as a coupled system: reactor power, primary loop, heat exchanger, Brayton cycle, heat rejection and the unit's own parasitic loads, with faults that each change exactly one term.Launch experiment
1 interactive experimentRuns in the browser
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Labs

IDProgramStatus
  1. VL-01Adaptive Photonic GuidanceClosed-loop optical guidance that adapts beam geometry to a changing physical environment.PROTOTYPE
  2. VL-02Agentic Infrastructure LayerA coordination layer that lets software agents operate machines, services, and physical systems through one interface.IN DEVELOPMENT
  3. VL-03Autonomous Robotics StackPerception, planning, and control components for autonomous systems that must operate reliably without supervision.RESEARCH
  4. VL-04Optical Compute InterfaceInterfaces between photonic signal paths and conventional computation.RESEARCH
  5. VL-05Mach–Zehnder Electro-Optic ModulatorInteractive lithium-niobate Mach–Zehnder modulator: voltage to electric field to refractive index to optical phase to output port.PROTOTYPE
  6. VL-06Phase SteeringInteractive aperture whose per-cell phase steers a beam, with candidate physical structures for the same phase function.PROTOTYPE
  7. VL-07Metamaterial LabGenerator for aperiodic and resonant surface structures, and how each samples a target phase field.RESEARCH
  8. VL-08Field PlaygroundInteractive electromagnetic field volume: plane waves, dipoles, interference, and phase-controlled steering.RESEARCH
  9. VL-09Load Path StudioInteractive landing-leg bracket: applied load to load path to first-order strength checks, with the governing failure mode marked on the part it acts on.PROTOTYPE
  10. VL-10Portable MicroreactorInteractive portable microreactor: coupled core, primary loop, recuperated helium Brayton cycle and heat rejection, with decay heat, part-load inventory control and single-term fault injection. Conceptual and educational; no neutronics, no dose, no safety analysis.PROTOTYPE
  11. VL-11Doubler / Load Path StudioInteractive fastened repair: a one-dimensional load-transfer solve with Huth fastener flexibility divides the load between a damaged ligament and a doubler, and first-order bearing, shear, shear-out, net-section, countersink and pull-through checks report the margin that governs.PROTOTYPE
  12. VL-S01Autonomous Photonic FabricA small multi-wavelength photonic fabric that detects a degraded optical path and restores service by retuning or rerouting itself.PROTOTYPE
  13. VL-S02Adaptive Photonic PerceptionAn adaptive EO sensor head: change the optics, watch detection and tracking follow the physics.PROTOTYPE
  14. VL-S03Adaptive Photonic SkinA structured optical surface that turns free-space light into guided, routable information — and shows where the rest of the energy went.PROTOTYPE
  15. VL-T01Lattice StudioInteractive lattice instrument: six families, engineered vacancies, geometry metrics and a side-by-side compare at matched density. Estimates, not certified values.PROTOTYPE
  16. VL-X01Harness Field MapperNon-contact magnetic inspection of wire harnesses: reconstruct the current path from the field outside the insulation, and locate what conventional continuity testing cannot see.PROTOTYPE
  17. VL-X02Spectral InspectionIdentify wire insulation from the near-infrared bands its bonds absorb in, and work out what a sensor needs to reach to see them.PROTOTYPE
  18. VL-X03Inside the Microring ResonatorAn interactive silicon microring: evanescent coupling, resonant build-up, thermal tuning, and why a high Q and a usable filter pull against each other.PROTOTYPE
  19. VL-X04Quantum NavigationGPS-denied navigation by magnetic-anomaly map matching: conventional against NV-diamond magnetometers on one simulated drone, with inertial drift, ambiguity and interference left in.PROTOTYPE
19 active entriesRegistry · VL
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How Labs works

  1. 01 · BUILD

    A working system first

    Every Labs project starts as something that runs: a bench setup, a prototype device, a service under load. Documents follow demonstrations.

  2. 02 · TEST

    Measured against the physical world

    Projects are evaluated on what they do outside the simulator. Optical systems are tested on real benches; autonomy on real hardware.

  3. 03 · SHAPE

    Product, infrastructure, or company

    Work that proves out is shaped into one of three outcomes. Work that does not is archived with its findings, and its registry code is retired.