Quantum effects could shed light on hazy images

March 31, 2008 | Source: New Scientist news service

MIT professor Seth Lloyd suggests that entangled photons could sharpen up microscopic and other images by providing a way to discard the noise from scattered light.

This could be achieved by firing one photon from an entangled pair towards an object and keeping its partner behind, Lloyd says. You could match the two when the reflected photon returns; the imaging device could ignore any unmatched photons.