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NIST physicist Sae Woo Nam Sae Woo Nam holds a circuit used to amplify signals from the new photon detector. 

Sae Woo Nam with Circuit

NIST research on quantum computing and communications includes a recent demonstration of a device that can count about 20,000 photons (the smallest units of light) per second. Here, NIST physicist Sae Woo Nam Sae Woo Nam holds a circuit used to amplify signals from the new photon detector. 

Credit: ©Geoffrey Wheeler
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