qutools – Smart tools for quantum optics

Last month at the DPG meetings in Erlangen and Berlin, our quTAG measured the time of the laps in our Slot Car race. In total, we had 5140 laps from 248 players – we had a lot of fun and I hope you had as well!
Congratulations to “Martin H.” and “Oleksandra S.” who performed best in Erlangen / Berlin. Your best lap time was just as low as 57 µs respective 69 µs apart from the target time. Pretty amazing!...

Within the last two decades, quantum physicists have been busy proposing experiments that could be done in space. At long last, their efforts seem to produce results. Lately, two more results have been published, both groups are rather well-known to...

LIGO/VIRGO first detection of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars.
Image credit: Karan Jani/Georgia Tech
This was quicker than expected: Only two years after the observation of gravitational waves (we reported on this) in September 2015, the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 to Rainer Weiss, Barry...

At the Laser – World of Photonics 2017 in Munich, we had a slot car race game which we called “quRace”. Our quTAG was used to determine the lap time with ps precision – a bit of an overkill, but fun to see.
Here are some statistics about the race: In total, 227 races were played with a total of 3400 laps. The outer lane was more popular. “Frank M.” and “Woody” were the most active players with 13 and 9 races – but remember: Only the first three races were...