{"id":227143,"date":"2025-12-15T09:18:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/all-optical-modulation-with-single-photons-using-an-electron-avalanche"},"modified":"2025-12-15T09:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:18:50","slug":"all-optical-modulation-with-single-photons-using-an-electron-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/all-optical-modulation-with-single-photons-using-an-electron-avalanche","title":{"rendered":"All-optical modulation with single photons using an electron avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/all-optical-modulation-with-single-photons-using-an-electron-avalanche.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a long time, this has been a major hurdle in optics. Light is an incredible tool for fast, efficient communication and futuristic quantum computers, but it\u2019s notoriously hard to control at such delicate, \u201csingle-photon\u201d levels.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Electron avalanche multiplication can enable an all-optical modulator controlled by single photons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time, this has been a major hurdle in optics. Light is an incredible tool for fast, efficient communication and futuristic quantum computers, but it\u2019s notoriously hard to control at such delicate, \u201csingle-photon\u201d levels. Electron avalanche multiplication can enable an all-optical modulator controlled by single photons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227143","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\/227143","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}