Ultra-Dense Optical Storage -- on One Photon

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First image stored and retrieved from a single photon (Credit University of Rochester)
First image stored and retrieved from a single photon (Credit University of Rochester)
Researchers at the University of Rochester 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.


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