Curtiss said the Advanced
Photon Source allowed the scientists to observe ultralow loadings of their small clusters, down to a few nanograms, which was a critical piece of this investigation.
Single -
photon sources allow secret keys to be sent with absolute security, as the laws of quantum mechanics say it is impossible to observe a photon without altering it.
Not exact matches
They
allow researchers to prove that single -
photon sources, another key element of many optical quantum information systems, reliably emit only one
photon at a time.
The new
source would
allow many
photons to enter the optical fibre simultaneously, and therefore would increase the capacity of quantum channels.