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Lighting up the ion trap – MIT News
A fiber-optic block that plugs into an ion-trap chip can deliver multiple wavelengths of light directly to ions, potentially enabling portable and scalable quantum…
Walk into a quantum lab where scientists trap ions, and you’ll find benchtops full of mirrors and lenses, all focusing lasers to hit an ion trapped in place above a chip. By using lasers to control ions, scientists have learned to harness ions as quantum bits, or qubits, the basic unit of data in a quantum computer. But this laser setup is holding research back making it difficult to experiment with more than a few ions and to take these systems out of the lab for real use.
Now, MIT Lincoln Laboratory…
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