{"id":123796,"date":"2021-06-14T08:23:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/optical-cryostat-proves-a-game-changer-in-quantum-communication-studies"},"modified":"2021-06-14T08:23:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:23:23","slug":"optical-cryostat-proves-a-game-changer-in-quantum-communication-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/optical-cryostat-proves-a-game-changer-in-quantum-communication-studies","title":{"rendered":"Optical cryostat proves a game-changer in quantum communication studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/optical-cryostat-proves-a-game-changer-in-quantum-communication-studies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>German nanotechnology specialist attocube says its attoDRY800 cryostat enables quantum scientists to \u201creclaim the optical table\u201d and focus on their research not the experimental set-up.<\/p>\n<p>Twin-track innovations in cryogenic cooling and optical table design are \u201ccreating the space\u201d for fundamental scientific breakthroughs in quantum communications, allowing researchers to optimize the performance of secure, long-distance quantum key distribution (QKD) using engineered single-photon-emitting light sources.<\/p>\n<p>In a proof-of-concept study last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifkp.tu-berlin.de\/menue\/arbeitsgruppen\/jag_heindel\/team\/dr_tobias_heindel_gruppenleiter\/\">Tobias Heindel<\/a> and colleagues in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifkp.tu-berlin.de\/menue\/institut_fuer_festkoerperphysik\/parameter\/en\/\">Institute of Solid State Physics at the Technische Universit\u00e4t (TU) Berlin<\/a>, Germany, implemented a basic QKD testbed in their laboratory. The experimental set-up uses a semiconductor quantum-dot emitter to send single-photon pulses along an optical fibre to a four-port receiver that analyses the polarization state of the transmitted qubits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German nanotechnology specialist attocube says its attoDRY800 cryostat enables quantum scientists to \u201creclaim the optical table\u201d and focus on their research not the experimental set-up. Twin-track innovations in cryogenic cooling and optical table design are \u201ccreating the space\u201d for fundamental scientific breakthroughs in quantum communications, allowing researchers to optimize the performance of secure, long-distance quantum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123796","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}