{"id":243455,"date":"2026-09-01T05:17:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/hollow-core-fiber-platform-could-help-different-quantum-technologies-connect"},"modified":"2026-09-01T05:17:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:17:48","slug":"hollow-core-fiber-platform-could-help-different-quantum-technologies-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/hollow-core-fiber-platform-could-help-different-quantum-technologies-connect","title":{"rendered":"Hollow-core fiber platform could help different quantum technologies connect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hollow-core-fiber-platform-could-help-different-quantum-technologies-connect2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum technologies promise secure communication networks, powerful forms of computing and new sensing tools. One of the major challenges, however, is that different quantum systems often operate at different wavelengths of light. Quantum memories, trapped ions and other quantum devices may work best in the ultraviolet or visible range, while long-distance communication over optical fibers works most efficiently at telecommunications wavelengths.<\/p>\n<p>Building practical quantum networks will require reliable ways to translate quantum information between these different optical bands without losing the information carried by the light.<\/p>\n<p>A new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiedigitallibrary.org\/journals\/advanced-photonics-nexus\/volume-5\/issue-06\/066002\/Tunable-phase-coherent-FWM-for-quantum-wavelength-interconnects\/10.1117\/1.APN.5.6.066002.full\" target=\"_blank\">published in <i>Advanced Photonics Nexus<\/i><\/a> explores a promising route to achieving that goal through a process known as four-wave mixing (FWM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum technologies promise secure communication networks, powerful forms of computing and new sensing tools. One of the major challenges, however, is that different quantum systems often operate at different wavelengths of light. Quantum memories, trapped ions and other quantum devices may work best in the ultraviolet or visible range, while long-distance communication over optical fibers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243455","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\/243455","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=243455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}