BRUSSELS—A coalition of 17 European manufacturers, technology suppliers and research organizations are collaborating to ...

Laser-cooled atomic gases, gases of atoms chilled to temperatures around absolute zero using laser technologies, have proved ...

STORY: This observatory telescope has been repurposed to combat cyber threats.:: Edinburgh, ScotlandLocated at Heriot-Watt ...

It successfully produced on-demand photons without external laser excitation ... transmission through quantum key ...

The single-photon technology has applications in nanotechnology research and industry, manufacturing processes, and health care. Femtosecond laser two-photon polymerization is widely used for 3D ...

The first is for tasks involving very low light levels, such as fluorescence microscopy for biological imaging, free-space optical communications or laser ranging. The second is for single-photon ...

More information: Jingzhong Yang et al, High-rate intercity quantum key distribution with a semiconductor single-photon source, Light: Science & Applications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41377-024-01488-0 ...

Such a source can be directly deployed for multi-photon quantum simulations, or quantum key distribution (QKD) experiments. Sparrow's single-photon sources have also been deployed in the latest “PT-2” ...