{"id":3927628,"date":"2026-08-24T09:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-free-space-optical-link-adds-a-wireless-component-to-the-nations-longest-quantum-network\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T09:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:05:45","slug":"new-free-space-optical-link-adds-a-wireless-component-to-the-nations-longest-quantum-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-free-space-optical-link-adds-a-wireless-component-to-the-nations-longest-quantum-network\/","title":{"rendered":"New free-space optical link adds a wireless component to the nation&#8217;s longest quantum network"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>There&#8217;s a new lighthouse on Long Island. But instead of shining light to guide ships through waterways, this one transmits and receives particles of light that carry quantum information. Perched atop a seven-story building at the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, the &#8220;Quantum Lighthouse&#8221; is a key pillar of the free-space optical (FSO) link spanning Brookhaven Lab, the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University) and Yale University.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-free-space-optical-link-wireless.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new lighthouse on Long Island. But instead of shining light to guide ships through waterways, this one transmits and receives particles of light that carry quantum information. Perched atop a seven-story building at the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, the &#8220;Quantum Lighthouse&#8221; is a key pillar of the free-space optical [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}