A joint research team at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Sandia National Laboratory has developed an ultra-miniature optical phase modulator. Its size is almost one-percent of the diameter of a human hair, yet it can control laser frequencies with extremely low power consumption and extremely high accuracy, providing core support for future large-scale quantum computers. The relevant results were published in the new issue of “Nature Communications”.

A joint research team at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Sandia National Laboratory has developed an ultra-miniature optical phase modulator. Its size is almost one-percent of the diameter of a human hair, yet it can control laser frequencies with extremely low power consumption and extremely high accuracy, providing core support for future large-scale quantum computers. The relevant results were published in the new issue of “Nature Communications”.