Toward quantum chips: Packing single-photon detectors on an optical chip is crucial for quantum-computational circuits
Saturday, January 10, 2015 - 00:00
in Physics & Chemistry
A team of researchers has built an array of light detectors sensitive enough to register the arrival of individual light particles, or photons, and mounted them on a silicon optical chip. Such arrays are crucial components of devices that use photons to perform quantum computations.