{"id":243151,"date":"2026-08-25T01:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/supersized-quantum-sensors-make-faint-photons-easier-to-catch"},"modified":"2026-08-25T01:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:29:30","slug":"supersized-quantum-sensors-make-faint-photons-easier-to-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/supersized-quantum-sensors-make-faint-photons-easier-to-catch","title":{"rendered":"Supersized quantum sensors make faint photons easier to catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supersized-quantum-sensors-make-faint-photons-easier-to-catch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our everyday life is flooded with photons, the quantum building blocks of light. For cutting-edge technology, from quantum computing to deep-tissue imaging, detecting every single photon counts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhotons carry information,\u201d said Kristen Parzuchowski, a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. \u201cWhenever a photon comes into your measurement system, you need to be able to detect it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photons can transmit data in quantum networks or across deep-space communication links. Catching and analyzing photons lets scientists build biomedical images and search the universe for dark matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our everyday life is flooded with photons, the quantum building blocks of light. For cutting-edge technology, from quantum computing to deep-tissue imaging, detecting every single photon counts. \u201cPhotons carry information,\u201d said Kristen Parzuchowski, a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. \u201cWhenever a photon comes into your measurement system, you need to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243151","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=243151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}