Research led by Liang Feng, PhD, Professor of Materials Science and PhD candidate Yichi Zhang at Penn Engineering, and Li Ge of the City University of New York has resulted in the development of a compact microlaser device that uses quantum principles to relay information securely. Instead of the conventional two-dimensional quantum bits (qubits) that encode quantum information within a two-level system, the microlaser uses a higher-dimensional alternative, known as qudits, which vastly expands the capacity and resilience of quantum communication. This technology has a number of potential applications, including encrypted banking and healthcare communications, fiber network testing, and ground-to-satellite communication.
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