{"id":98176,"date":"2019-11-05T17:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T01:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/structured-light-could-be-route-to-higher-information-capacity-per-photon"},"modified":"2019-11-05T17:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T01:43:03","slug":"structured-light-could-be-route-to-higher-information-capacity-per-photon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/structured-light-could-be-route-to-higher-information-capacity-per-photon","title":{"rendered":"Structured Light Could Be Route to Higher Information Capacity per Photon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/structured-light-could-be-route-to-higher-information-capacity-per-photon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 4, 2019 \u2014 Researchers from the University of Witswatersrand (Wits) have reported on progress made in the use of structured light in quantum protocols to create a larger encoding alphabet. The researchers said that since patterns of light can be distinguished from each other, they can be used as a form of alphabet. \u201cLight comes in a variety of patterns that can be made unique \u2014 like our faces,\u201d professor Andrew Forbes said. \u201cThere are, in principle at least, an infinite set of patterns, so an infinite alphabet is available.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 4, 2019 \u2014 Researchers from the University of Witswatersrand (Wits) have reported on progress made in the use of structured light in quantum protocols to create a larger encoding alphabet. The researchers said that since patterns of light can be distinguished from each other, they can be used as a form of alphabet. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98176","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}