Quantum Camera On a Silicon Chip

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 25, 2009 @10:51AM from the tech-mad-libs-or-buzzword-bingo dept.

stefanparvu14 writes "Physicists in Switzerland and California have developed a new type of camera capable of imaging quantum correlations between pairs of photons. The details are presented in the current issue of the open-access publication New Journal of Physics. Unlike a conventional camera with a CCD imager, this camera is composed of Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) pixels implemented on a high-performance CMOS chip. One of the authors has provided more background for the non-physicist. Apparently, it could be used to verify the existence of Bose-Einstein condensates that are now starting to be produced in new ways."

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Re:any condensed matter folks here? by Robin47 · 2009-01-25 15:23 · Score: 2, Funny

>Quantum mechanics is like that sometimes. Or maybe it isn't...
I hear the engineer turned down his paycheck by RevWaldo · 2009-01-25 17:08 · Score: 2, Funny

..for a envelope full of trinkets.

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Who cares? by S-100 · 2009-01-25 17:20 · Score: 2, Funny

Who cares? Nothing made by Bose is any good anyway.
Re:The first link... by Arthur+Grumbine · 2009-01-25 19:07 · Score: 2, Funny

Well, it was relevant before you looked at...

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Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.