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:Unless I missunderstand the scale... by deathy_epl+ccs · 2009-01-25 11:57 · Score: 1, Insightful

Doesn't this run into the small problem of:
"observing a quantum event changes that event"?
Yeah, but see, that's what's so great about it! Now we'll be able to fuck everything up at a quantum level too!