{"id":217874,"date":"2025-07-14T21:02:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/new-technique-using-raman-scattering-can-dramatically-improve-laser-linewidth-for-better-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2025-07-14T21:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:02:55","slug":"new-technique-using-raman-scattering-can-dramatically-improve-laser-linewidth-for-better-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/new-technique-using-raman-scattering-can-dramatically-improve-laser-linewidth-for-better-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"New technique using Raman scattering can dramatically improve laser linewidth for better quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-technique-using-raman-scattering-can-dramatically-improve-laser-linewidth-for-better-quantum-computing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Macquarie University researchers have demonstrated a technique to dramatically narrow the linewidth of a laser beam by a factor of over ten thousand\u2014a discovery that could revolutionize quantum computing, atomic clocks and gravitational wave detection.<\/p>\n<p>In research <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/app\/article\/10\/7\/076107\/3352402\/Linewidth-narrowing-in-Raman-lasers\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>APL Photonics<\/i>, the team described using diamond crystals and the Raman effect\u2014where laser light stimulates vibrations in materials and then scatters off those vibrations\u2014to narrow the linewidth of laser beams by factors exceeding 10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Laser linewidth measures how precisely a beam of light maintains its frequency and color purity. The narrower the linewidth, the more monochromatic and spectrally pure the laser. The team\u2019s theoretical predictions suggest even greater improvements are possible with the method they have developed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie University researchers have demonstrated a technique to dramatically narrow the linewidth of a laser beam by a factor of over ten thousand\u2014a discovery that could revolutionize quantum computing, atomic clocks and gravitational wave detection. In research published in APL Photonics, the team described using diamond crystals and the Raman effect\u2014where laser light stimulates vibrations [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217874","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}