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| Title: |
Quantum Physics; Quantum Communications; Ultrafast Photon Detector; Nam |
| Description: |
NIST research on quantum computing and communications includes a recent demonstration of a device that can count about 20,000 photons (the smallest units of light) per second. Here, NIST physicist Sae Woo Nam Sae Woo Nam holds a circuit used to amplify signals from the new photon detector.
*EEEL, quantum communications, photon detector, photons, light detection, light particles, light sensing, Boulder
See also http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb2003_0811.htm#photon.
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| Subjects (names): |
Nam, Sae Woo
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| Topics/Categories: |
Communications--Optical
Electronics--Electromagnetics
Physics--Optics
Quantum Physics--Quantum Communications
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| Type: |
Photo/Color |
| Source: |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
Credit Line as it should
appear in print: |
Copyright Geoffrey Wheeler |
| AV Number: |
03EEEL001 |
| Date Created: |
August 11, 2003 |
| Date Entered: |
3/7/2005 |
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