{"id":234472,"date":"2026-04-02T06:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/ultrafast-quantum-light-pulses-measured-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:31:39","slug":"ultrafast-quantum-light-pulses-measured-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/ultrafast-quantum-light-pulses-measured-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Ultrafast quantum light pulses measured for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultrafast-quantum-light-pulses-measured-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Technion\u2014Israel Institute of Technology have, for the first time, measured the temporal duration of individual pulses of an extraordinary form of quantum light known as bright squeezed vacuum (BSV). Their findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/opg.optica.org\/abstract.cfm?URI=optica-13-3-395\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Optica.<\/p>\n<p>Bright squeezed vacuum is a unique quantum state of light. Although it is formally considered the \u201cvacuum state\u201d and the electric field of this light is zero on average, it exhibits enormous quantum fluctuations of its electric field due to the squeezing effect.<\/p>\n<p>This is in stark contrast to typical light produced by intense lasers, known as coherent-state light, that exhibit only extremely weak quantum fluctuations. However, for BSV, the fluctuations can lead to extremely intense light pulses, containing up to one trillion (10\u00b9\u00b2) photons in a single pulse, hence the term bright squeezed vacuum. Until now, no one had measured the temporal duration of single BSV pulses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Technion\u2014Israel Institute of Technology have, for the first time, measured the temporal duration of individual pulses of an extraordinary form of quantum light known as bright squeezed vacuum (BSV). Their findings are published in Optica. Bright squeezed vacuum is a unique quantum state of light. Although it is formally considered the \u201cvacuum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234472","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=234472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}