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Major Upgrade to Improve Quality of Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source’s X-rays

The X-rays produced by the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) are bright, but they will soon be even brighter, thanks to a major upgrade that will make the quality of CHESS’ X-rays competitive with the world’s best synchrotron light sources.

21 Oct 2014

New Theory Result Opens Up Novel Path for Generating Spin Hall Effect

Every electrical device, from a simple lightbulb to the latest microchips, is enabled by the movement of electrical charge, or current. The nascent field of ‘spintronics’ taps into a different electronic attribute, an intrinsic quantum property known as spin, and may yield devices that operate on the basis of spin-transport.

21 Oct 2014

DESI Project Awarded $1.1M to Fabricate Optics for Studying Dark Energy

The Heising-Simons Foundation has awarded $1.1M to the DESI project with the goal of helping to fabricate the unique optics needed to capture spectra of the young expanding universe.

20 Oct 2014

JQI Scientists Obtain Interference Pattern with Extremely Narrow Fringes Using Incoherent Light

Observing the quantum behavior of light is a big part of Alan Migdall’s research at the Joint Quantum Institute. Many of his experiments depend on observing light in the form of photons---the particle complement of light waves---and sometimes only one photon at a time, using “smart” detectors that can count the number of individual photons in a pulse.

13 Oct 2014

Optical Quantum Physics Researcher Awarded IUPAP ‘Young Scientist Prize in Optics’

Albert Schliesser, a research assistant professor at Quantop at the Niels Bohr Institute has been awarded the research prize ‘Young Scientist Prize in Optics’ by the international physics organisation, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, IUPAP.

9 Oct 2014

Innovative Technique Directly Generates Cross-Polarized Correlated Photons on a Chip

Commercial devices capable of encrypting information in unbreakable codes exist today, thanks to recent quantum optics advances, especially the generation of photon pairs—tiny entangled particles of light. Now, an international team of researchers led by professor Roberto Morandotti of INRS-EMT in Canada, is introducing a new method to achieve a different type of photon pair source that fits into the tiny space of a computer chip.

3 Oct 2014

Researchers Demonstrate a New Type of Qubit Control

Where are the quantum computers? Aren't they supposed to be speeding up decryption and internet searches? After two decades of research, you still can't find them in stores. Well, it took two decades or more of research dedicated to semiconductors and circuit integration before we had digital computers. For quantum computers too it will take technology more time to catch up to the science

3 Oct 2014

Photonic Crystal Etched Around Quantum Dots in Semiconductor Layer

The researchers etched a photonic crystal around several quantum dots in a semiconductor layer. Quantum dots are small structures that spontaneously emit light as a consequence of atomic processes.

1 Oct 2014

Optical Engineering Features Single-Photon Detection, Generation, and Applications

A new special section on single-photon detection, generation, and applications in Optical Engineering highlights research on technologies with applications in areas as diverse as space exploration and quantum computing, furthering the field by providing more accurate measurement methods and new analysis techniques. The peer-reviewed journal is published by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, in print and in the SPIE Digital Library.

29 Sep 2014

New Approach to Make Macroscopic Mechanical Resonators to Exhibit Quantum Mechanical Behavior

EPFL researchers find a new method for the preparation of non-classical states of a mechanical oscillator.

26 Sep 2014

Quantum Optics News

Major Upgrade to Improve Quality of Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source’s X-rays

New Theory Result Opens Up Novel Path for Generating Spin Hall Effect

DESI Project Awarded $1.1M to Fabricate Optics for Studying Dark Energy

JQI Scientists Obtain Interference Pattern with Extremely Narrow Fringes Using Incoherent Light

Optical Quantum Physics Researcher Awarded IUPAP ‘Young Scientist Prize in Optics’

Innovative Technique Directly Generates Cross-Polarized Correlated Photons on a Chip

Researchers Demonstrate a New Type of Qubit Control

Photonic Crystal Etched Around Quantum Dots in Semiconductor Layer

Optical Engineering Features Single-Photon Detection, Generation, and Applications

New Approach to Make Macroscopic Mechanical Resonators to Exhibit Quantum Mechanical Behavior

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

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