{"id":222834,"date":"2025-10-03T03:19:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/white-rabbit-optical-timing-technology-meets-quantum-entanglement"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:19:52","slug":"white-rabbit-optical-timing-technology-meets-quantum-entanglement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/white-rabbit-optical-timing-technology-meets-quantum-entanglement","title":{"rendered":"White Rabbit optical timing technology meets quantum entanglement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/white-rabbit-optical-timing-technology-meets-quantum-entanglement.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A small yet innovative experiment is taking place at CERN. Its goal is to test how the CERN-born optical timing signal\u2014normally used in the Laboratory\u2019s accelerators to synchronize devices with ultra-high precision\u2014can best be sent through an optical fiber alongside a single-photon signal from a source of quantum-entangled photons. The results could pave the way for using this technique in quantum networks and quantum cryptography.<\/p>\n<p>Research in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+networks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum networks<\/a> is growing rapidly worldwide. Future quantum networks could connect quantum computers and sensors, without losing any <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum information<\/a>. They could also enable the secure exchange of information, opening up applications across many fields.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike classical networks, where information is encoded in binary bits (0s and 1s), quantum networks rely on the unique properties of quantum bits, or \u201cqubits,\u201d such as superposition (where a qubit can exist in multiple states simultaneously) and entanglement (where the state of one qubit influences the state of another no matter how far apart they are).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small yet innovative experiment is taking place at CERN. Its goal is to test how the CERN-born optical timing signal\u2014normally used in the Laboratory\u2019s accelerators to synchronize devices with ultra-high precision\u2014can best be sent through an optical fiber alongside a single-photon signal from a source of quantum-entangled photons. The results could pave the way [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222834","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=222834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}