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Storing Photons In a Solid State Device

Posted by timothy on from the next-year-in-vending-machines dept.

bondisthebest writes in with a report from IEEE Spectrum: "Physicists in Switzerland, led by Nicolas Gisin of the University of Geneva, reported last week in Nature that they have made a solid-state device capable of storing photons for as long as 1 microsecond. The invention will aid in the development of light-based quantum-cryptography networks, which are theoretically impervious to hacking but are currently limited in range to a few dozen kilometers, primarily because of a lack of a suitable way to store the quantum state of photons."

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  1. Schrödinger called... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...he said your server was either hacked or it wasn't.

  2. I'm Gonna Be Rich! by CopaceticOpus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just need to be the first to patent two mirrors facing each other...