{"id":97966,"date":"2019-10-29T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T02:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/structured-light-promises-path-to-faster-more-secure-communications"},"modified":"2019-10-29T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T02:22:31","slug":"structured-light-promises-path-to-faster-more-secure-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/structured-light-promises-path-to-faster-more-secure-communications","title":{"rendered":"Structured light promises path to faster, more secure communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/structured-light-promises-path-to-faster-more-secure-communications.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hard light computers could be exponential.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Structured light is a fancy way to describe patterns or pictures of light, but deservedly so as it promises future communications that will be both faster and more secure.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum mechanics has come a long way during the past 100 years but still has a long way to go. In <i>AVS Quantum Science<\/i> researchers from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa review the progress being made in using structured light in quantum protocols to create a larger encoding alphabet, stronger security and better resistance to noise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we really want is to do quantum mechanics with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/patterns+of+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">patterns of light<\/a>,\u201d said author Andrew Forbes. \u201cBy this, we mean that light comes in a variety of patterns that can be made unique\u2014like our faces.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard light computers could be exponential. Structured light is a fancy way to describe patterns or pictures of light, but deservedly so as it promises future communications that will be both faster and more secure. Quantum mechanics has come a long way during the past 100 years but still has a long way to go. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97966","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}