Image Stored on One Photon
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan, 22, 2007 -- Researchers have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image intact.
While the initial test image consists of only a few hundred pixels, the researchers said a tremendous amount of information can be stored with the new technique, which was developed at the University of Rochester. University of Rochester associate physics professor John Howell in the lab. He and his...