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Scientific American September 2007 Marguerite Holloway	What Visions in the Dark of Light Lene Vestergaard Hau made headlines by slowing light to below highway speed. Now the ringmaster of light can stop it, extinguish it and revive it and thereby give quantum information a new look.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Saswato R. Das	Scheme for a Single-Photon Transistor Researchers have taken a big step toward building a really fast computer that uses light rather than electricity to perform calculations.
Technology Research News November 5, 2003	Rig fires more photon pairs Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have moved the field of quantum communications forward with entangled photon beams that contain specific wavelengths of light and are relatively bright.
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Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Fiber handles powerful pulses Researchers from Cornell University and Corning, Inc. have shown that it's possible to preserve the shape, intensity and color of a very high-power light pulse as it travels through 200 meters of a fiber-optic cable.
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Chemistry World January 16, 2012 Kate McAlpine	Stripped down spectroscopy to probe single molecules Spectroscopy, a key method of identifying atoms and molecules with light, has been taken to its most fundamental level - a single photon absorbed by a single molecule.
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Technology Research News March 24, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Pulse trap makes optical switch Scientists who work with light pulses so short that one trillion of them pass by in a second are laying the groundwork for higher bandwidth communications and blazingly-fast, all-optical computer chips.
Technology Research News April 6, 2005	Optics Demo Does Quantum Logic Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China and the University of Heidelberg in Germany have demonstrated a method of using four photons to form a logic gate that can be used for quantum computing.
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Technology Research News November 3, 2004	Photonic Crystal Lasers Juiced Researchers have made a photonic crystal laser that is driven by electric current. The device could eventually be used as a source of single photons for quantum cryptography and communications devices.
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Technology Research News June 4, 2003 Eric Smalley	Shock waves tune light Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used a computer simulation to show that sending shock waves through photonic crystals could lead to faster and cheaper telecommunications devices, more efficient solar cells, and advances in quantum computing.
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 Eric Smalley	Simple optics make quantum relay Quantum cryptography devices and networks, which transport photons whose properties can be used to represent the 1s and 0s of digital information, could also benefit from repeaters.
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Technology Research News January 28, 2004	Technique detects quantum state Researchers from the University of Rome in Italy have pushed theorized "perfect" quantum cryptography schemes forward by demonstrating a method for detecting quantum entanglement among subatomic particles.
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