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RLE Professor Yoel Fink and
Dr. Ngai C. Wong win major $2.5M award in quantum communication
from the DoD Quantum Information Science and Technology (QuIST)
program.
Cambridge, MA 06.06.2001
  Professor Yoel
Fink and Dr. Ngai
C. Wong will lead an RLE QuIST program entitled, "Long Distance,
High Data-Rate Quantum Communication with Ultralow Loss Photonic Gap
Fiber."
This $2.5M project will execute a combined theoretical and experimental
program to design, fabricate, and characterize hollow-core dielectric fiber
with multilayer omnidirectionally reflecting walls for use in
long-distance quantum communication.
The project
is sponsored by the Army Research
Office (ARO) and the Defense Advance
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the Department of Defense
(DoD). The goal of the QuIST program is to demonstrate advances
required for practical use of quantum logic and information in computing,
communications, and other applications.
This award
highlights one of RLE's fastest growing areas of new
research interest: quantum information, computing, and technology. Quantum mechanics offers
radically new approaches to the transmission, storage, and processing of
information.
Three large programs in these topics totaling in excess of $13M have
awarded to RLE in the past year. In addition to Professor Fink's and
Dr. Wong's new program, RLE is the also
the home to a recently awarded DoD Defense University Research Initiative
on NanoTechnology (DURINT) project led by RLE Professor Terry P. Orlando
entitled, "Quantum
Computation with Superconducting Quantum Devices," as well as a DoD Multidisciplinary University
Research Initiative (MURI) project led by RLE's Director, Professor
Jeffrey H. Shapiro entitled, "Quantum
Information Technology: Entanglement, Teleportation, and Quantum Memory."
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