{"id":115681,"date":"2020-11-10T03:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T11:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/tiny-device-enables-new-record-in-super-fast-quantum-light-detection"},"modified":"2020-11-10T03:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T11:22:17","slug":"tiny-device-enables-new-record-in-super-fast-quantum-light-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/tiny-device-enables-new-record-in-super-fast-quantum-light-detection","title":{"rendered":"Tiny device enables new record in super-fast quantum light detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-device-enables-new-record-in-super-fast-quantum-light-detection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bristol researchers have developed a tiny device that paves the way for higher performance quantum computers and quantum communications, making them significantly faster than the current state-of-the-art.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Bristol\u2019s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QET Labs) and Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur have made a new miniaturized <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a> detector to measure quantum features of light in more detail than ever before. The device, made from two <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/silicon+chips\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silicon chips<\/a> working together, was used to measure the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/unique+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">unique properties<\/a> of \u201csqueezed\u201d quantum light at record high speeds.<\/p>\n<p>Harnessing unique properties of quantum physics promises novel routes to outperform the current state-of-the-art in computing, communication and measurement. Silicon photonics\u2014where light is used as the carrier of information in silicon micro-chips\u2014is an exciting avenue towards these next-generation technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol researchers have developed a tiny device that paves the way for higher performance quantum computers and quantum communications, making them significantly faster than the current state-of-the-art. Researchers from the University of Bristol\u2019s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QET Labs) and Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur have made a new miniaturized light detector to measure quantum features of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115681","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}