Clever technology decodes more information from single photons
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
It's not quite Star Trek communications—yet. But long-distance communications in space may be easier now that researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have designed a clever detector array that can extract more information than usual from single particles of light.