First-Photon Imaging (Science)

First-Photon Imaging (Science)

Ahmed Kirmani, Dheera Venkatraman, Dongeek Shin, Andrea Colaço, Franco N. C. Wong, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Vivek K. Goyal Abstract: Imagers that use their own illumination can capture three-dimensional (3D) structure and reflectivity information. With photon-counting...
Making quantum encryption practical

Making quantum encryption practical

Researchers in the Optical and Quantum Communications Group at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) have experimentally demonstrated a new quantum communication protocol that solves two basic problems with achieving practical quantum encryption....
Making quantum encryption practical

Making quantum encryption practical

An MIT team that proposed a new, more-practical scheme for using quantum physics to secure data transmission has now demonstrated it experimentally. « more » Related Links: Making quantum encryption practical Professor Jeffrey Shapiro Dr....