Researchers take a step towards development of optical single-phonon detector
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from institutions in the U.S. and Austria has succeeded in building a device that shows a clear step towards the development of an optical single-phonon detector. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes their device and to what purposes it might be put. Ivan Favero with the University of Paris, offers a News & Views research perspective on the work done by the team and why it represents a big step forward in optomechanics.