Mastodawn

Weekend Reading! Check out his TechAptitude post on the upcoming Quantum Internet.

One of the first tangible outcomes from Quantum Technologies will likey be a highly -secure global communications backbone, a “quantum internet”, that could connect data centers, financial institutions, government facilities, with unbreakable encryption and quantum level security. https://techaptitude.substack.com/p/quantum-repeaters-bring-on-the-quantum #Quantum #QuantumInternet #QuantumTechnologies #Communications #Internet #Security #Encryption #QuantumRepeater #Photons #FibreOptics

BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻Apr 7

NIST and University of Colorado researchers demonstrated over 99% effectiveness in transmitting photons over a 2 km link of standard optical fiber. The team successfully separated the signals needed for fiber stabilization, trillions of photons per second, from the single photons carrying quantum information, overcoming a significant technical hurdle.

Net-net the experiment illustrated strong separation between the classical light signals and the quantum signals transversing fiber optic cables dramatically reducing sources of error and noise for optic based quantum systems.

https://quantumzeitgeist.com/optica-publishing-stable-quantum/ #Quantum #QuantumComputing #QuantumNetworking #NIST #Photons #Optics #FibreOptics

BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻Apr 6

Canadian start up Xanadu (founded in 2016) went IPO via SPAC (Mar 27) on the Nasdaq and TSX stock exchanges under the ticker symbol "XNDU".

Xanadu is building photonics-based quantum computing systems and claims its approach can leverage existing modern chip manufacturing facilities and optical components like fibre optics. https://www.xanadu.ai/press/xanadu-becomes-first-pure-play-photonic-quantum-computing-company-to-go-public #Quantum #QuantumComputing #Xanadu #TSX #NASDAQ #IPO #Photonics #SPAC #Optics #FibreOptics

BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻Oct 23, 2025

Quantum Networking - Ready For Prime Time. The latest post from TechAptitude on substack. https://open.substack.com/pub/techaptitude/p/quantum-networking-ready-for-prime?r=vn8b8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #Quantum #QuantumNetworking #QKD #QuantunKeyDistribution #Phonics #FibreOptics #Substack #TechAptitude

AusSMC Sep 2, 2025

🔆 What's faster than light speed? Well, it's still light speed, but in terms of an optical fibre, UK researchers say transmitting the light through a hollow core fibre would be able to speed up data transmissions by 45%, and let it travel further without needing a little boost

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/new-optical-fibre-could-speed-up-our-internet

#science #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #learning #internet #fibreoptics

alecm Jun 7, 2025

QUESTION: the Drone War in Ukraine suggests that fibre-optic tech is now dirt cheap; so where can I get some to run a 50m link around my garden?

They appear to be running a full video and control feed over (approximately) a piece of fishing monofilament, so I’m presuming the control tech is no longer a matter of $5,000 GBICs?

#drones #fibreOptics #networking #nofeed #ukraine

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Likely Jan Lukas Feb 20, 2025

About 24 hours later, I was able to start rinsing them off and was surprised to see that the yellowed items were still yellow.

After a lot of research I was able to dig up the materials the lamp is made from, and learned that the #diffuser (#fibres / #fibers ) are acrylic, not glass.

This led me to some far more useful information, as searching for #FibreOptics tends to give a lot of info about specialised #data cabling, not #decor.

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Matilda's Lab Dec 14, 2024

It turns out that humans weren't the first species to invent fibre optics. Cockles use them to bring light inside their shells to feed their symbiotic algae.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53110-x
#symbiosis #cockles #fibreoptics #biology #science #scicomm

Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses - Nature Communications

Some bivalves have evolved photosynthetic symbioses. Here, the authors show that heart cockles transmit light through their upper shell to internal photosynthetic symbionts, using mineral fiber optic cables to maximize light transmission.

Nature