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New Temporal Filtering Technique Improves Solid-State Single Photon Sources
Release Date: 05/08/2013 Schematic showing a single photon source (SPS) that is created from a quantum dot (QD) by optically pumping it with a periodically pulsed … more
Photons Emitted by Quantum Dots Can be Made Indistinguishable Through Quantum Frequency Conversion
Release Date: 12/19/2012 The quantum frequency conversion system uses two pump lasers whose frequency difference is matched to the difference between the two input photon … more
New Platform Developed to Measure and Exploit Optomechanical Interactions
Release Date: 12/12/2012 A pair of nanobeams is held side-by-side and separated by a nanoscale gap, with more
CNST Researchers Demonstrate Low-Noise, Chip-Based Optical Wavelength Converter
Release Date: 09/05/2012 Scanning electron micrograph of the cross-section of a silicon nitride waveguide designed for the low-noise frequency conversion with a simulation … more
NIST’s Microscopic Drum Could Link Electromagnetic, Mechanical Motion at Quantum Level
Release Date: 03/15/2011 Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an electromechanical circuit in which microwaves … more
NIST Electromechanical Circuit Sets Record Beating Microscopic 'Drum'
Release Date: 03/09/2011 Device May Help Process Information and Measure Motion at Quantum Scale BOULDER, Colo.—Physicists at the National Institute of Standards … more
New Wave: JILA Develops Efficient Source of Terahertz Radiation
Release Date: 01/19/2011 JILA researchers have developed a laser-based source of terahertz radiation that is unusually efficient and less prone to damage than similar … more
NIST Researchers Create 'Quantum Cats' Made of Light
Release Date: 08/31/2010 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created "quantum cats" made of photons (particles of light), … more
NIST Develops 'Dimmer Switch' for Superconducting Quantum Computing
Release Date: 04/27/2010 Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed the first "dimmer switch" for a superconducting circuit … more
NIST Detector Counts Photons With 99 Percent Efficiency
Release Date: 04/13/2010 Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed* the world's most efficient single photon detector, which … more
NIST Photon Detectors Have Record Efficiency
Release Date: 06/02/2005 Sensors that detect and count single photons, the smallest quantities of light, with 88 percent efficiency have been demonstrated by physicists at … more
NIST Demonstrates Data ‘Repair Kit’ for Quantum Computers
Release Date: 12/01/2004 NIST physicists Dietrich Leibfried and David Wineland in the laboratory where they have developed a method for correcting data handling errors for … more
A Quantum Mechanical ‘Tune Up’ for Better Measurement
Release Date: 06/04/2004 By exploiting the weird quantum behavior of atoms, physicists at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and … more |
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