American researchers have put all the data from an image into a single photon, one of the particles that make up light and other electromagnetic phenomena. The team was also able to retrieve the data, the letters UR for the University of Rochester where lead researcher John Howell is an associate professor of physics. Researchers at the University of Rochester stored this image in a single photon and then retrieved it.Researchers at the University of Rochester stored this image in a single photon and then retrieved it. ‘It sort of sounds impossible, but instead of storing just ones and zeros, we’re storing an entire image,’ he said in a release Monday. ‘While the initial test image consists of only a few hundred pixels, a tremendous amount of information can be stored with the new technique,’ the researchers said in describing the experiment as an ‘optics breakthrough.’ Alan Willner, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, endorsed the experiment in the release. ‘The parallel amount of information John has sent all at once in an image is enormous in comparison to what anyone else has done before,’ he […]