{"id":203930,"date":"2025-01-17T06:26:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/quantum-engineers-squeeze-laser-frequency-combs-to-make-more-sensitive-gas-sensors"},"modified":"2025-01-17T06:26:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:26:55","slug":"quantum-engineers-squeeze-laser-frequency-combs-to-make-more-sensitive-gas-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/quantum-engineers-squeeze-laser-frequency-combs-to-make-more-sensitive-gas-sensors","title":{"rendered":"Quantum engineers \u2018squeeze\u2019 laser frequency combs to make more sensitive gas sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-engineers-squeeze-laser-frequency-combs-to-make-more-sensitive-gas-sensors3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, scientists have used a technique called \u201cquantum squeezing\u201d to improve the gas sensing performance of devices known as optical frequency comb lasers. These ultra-precise sensors are like fingerprint scanners for molecules of gas. Scientists have used them to spot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/today\/2022\/06\/08\/methane-leaks-are-major-factor-climate-change-one-startup-wants-stop-them\" target=\"_blank\">methane leaks in the air above oil and gas operations<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-05-breathalyzer-disease-covid-real-time-cancer.html\">signs of COVID-19 infections in breath samples<\/a> from humans.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a series of lab experiments, researchers have laid out a path for making those kinds of measurements even more sensitive and faster\u2014doubling the speed of frequency comb detectors. The work is a collaboration between Scott Diddams at CU Boulder Boulder and J\u00e9r\u00f4me Genest at Universit\u00e9 Laval in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSay you were in a situation where you needed to detect minute quantities of a dangerous gas leak in a factory setting,\u201d said Diddams, professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. \u201cRequiring only 10 minutes versus 20 minutes can make a big difference in keeping people safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, scientists have used a technique called \u201cquantum squeezing\u201d to improve the gas sensing performance of devices known as optical frequency comb lasers. These ultra-precise sensors are like fingerprint scanners for molecules of gas. Scientists have used them to spot methane leaks in the air above oil and gas operations and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203930","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=203930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}