Toshiba Claims Entangled Photon Breakthrough

by Rupert Goodwins ZDNet News, 11 Jan 2006 Researchers at Cambridge University and Toshiba have announced a new quantum device that produces entangled photons, a promising technology for quantum encryption. Consisting of pairs of photons of light whose fundamental properties are inextricably linked, the technology has attracted increasing interest over the past 10 years. It has many possible uses in addition to encryption, including communications, quantum computing, medical imaging and chip production. Read more