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Detector blinding attacks on quantum cryptography defeated

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Cambridge Research Laboratory of Toshiba Research Europe announced today that it has discovered a simple method to prevent detector blinding attacks on quantum cryptography.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Up-scale: Frequency converter enables ultra-high sensitivity infrared spectrometry

In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 2




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Toshiba researchers achieve new record bit rate for quantum key distribution

The Cambridge Lab of Toshiba Research Europe today announced a major breakthrough that will allow ultra-secure encryption of sensitive data sent by banks, hospitals and government organisations.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Philips announces breakthrough in fully digital light detection technology

Royal Philips Electronics today announced that its scientists have developed a highly innovative digital silicon photomultiplier technology that will allow faster and more accurate photon (the basic quantum ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Making quantum cryptography practical

Quantum cryptography, a completely secure means of communication, is much closer to being used practically as researchers from Toshiba and Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory have now developed high speed detectors ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Avalanche photodiodes target bioterrorism agents

Researchers have shown that a new class of ultraviolet photodiode could help meet the U.S. military's pressing requirement for compact, reliable and cost-effective sensors to detect anthrax and other bioterrorism ...

Technology / Other

created Jun 26, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

LIDAR imaging detector could build 'super road maps' of planets and moons

Technology that could someday “MapQuest” Mars and other bodies in the solar system is under development at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory (RIDL), in collaboration with Massachusetts ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 15, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

MRI/PET scanner combo

Two kinds of body imaging -- positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) -- have been combined for the first time in a single scanner.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 07, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Tiny avalanche photodiode detects single UV photons

In a significant breakthrough, researchers at Northwestern University’s Center for Quantum Devices (CQD) have demonstrated visible-blind avalanche photodiodes (APDs) capable of detecting single photons in the ultraviolet ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 28, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2

New technologies enhance quantum cryptography

A team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., and Albion College, in Albion, Mich., have achieved quantum ...

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created Feb 02, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Tiny avalanche photodiodes target bioterrorism agents

After the anthrax attacks in the United States in 2001 the threat of a larger and more deadly bioterrorism attack -- perhaps from smallpox, plague or tularemia -- became very real. But the ability to detect such biological ...

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created Sep 13, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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