quantum receiver

We want data.  Lots of it.  We want it now.  We want it to be cheap and accurate.

 Researchers try to meet the inexorable demands made on the telecommunications grid by improving various components.  In October 2014, for instance, scientists at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands did their part by setting a new record for transmission down a single optical fiber: 255 terabits per second.