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A new microscope technology has been developed that allows researchers to view difficult-to-view items with pinpoint accuracy through an entangled photon technology. MIT Technology Review reported that the creators of the new microscope believed that “entangled photons could improve the technology that scientists are using to view transparent items under a microscope.” Contrast microscopy has also been deployed as a way to see microscopic, almost transparent algae cells or silicon wafer slices.
With typical contrast microscopy a beam of untangled, independent photons (aka ordinary light beams) can be viewed as a way to measure textures. The introduction of entangled photons makes use of quantum entanglement, which means that two particles, “share the same existence” even if they are not in close proximity. Albert Einstein was noted as saying that quantum entanglement was a “spooky action that took place at a distance.”
Under typical differential interference contrast microscopy the beams of the microscope aim two beams of untangled photons that are next to each other, at an object. The microscope measures the way the photons reflect back and those measurements give the microscope information about the texture based on the spots in which the photons hit the object.
When researchers at the University of Japan introduced entangled photons they were able to capture measurements with greater precision than the untangled photons. The way it works, researchers explained is that “a measurement on one entangled photon provides information about the other entangled photon and added together they offer more precise information than do independent photons.”
Universe Optics manufactures a full line of objectives and eyepieces for microscopy and other applications.