{"id":7,"date":"2005-12-16T19:37:12","date_gmt":"2005-12-17T00:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2006-02-27T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T20:41:03","slug":"first-single-photon-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/16\/first-single-photon-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s first single photon machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Roland Piquepaille at ZDNet&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/emergingtech\/\">Emerging Technology Blog<\/a> writes, &#8220;Nanotechnologists at the University of Southern California (USC) are building a device dubbed the Einstein Emitter which will deliver a single photon produced by a single electron. At the same time, other researchers at the University of Texas\/Austin are developing the detector for this single photon. Together, they are assembling the first real-world photon computer system. These photon machines will first be used in cryptographic devices. But later, these photonic systems might lead to smaller and faster general purpose computers&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While this doesn&#8217;t appear to have any immediate applications for conventional photography, I&#8217;m really curious as to what, if any, there could be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/emergingtech\/?p=30\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roland Piquepaille at ZDNet&#8217;s Emerging Technology Blog writes, &#8220;Nanotechnologists at the University of Southern California (USC) are building a device dubbed the Einstein Emitter which will deliver a single photon produced by a single electron. At the same time, other researchers at the University of Texas\/Austin are developing the detector for this single photon. Together, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[380,1197,1348],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extra-geeky","tag-computer","tag-nanotech","tag-photon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->