UT Arlington electrical engineer using quantum nature of light to boost Internet security
Research could increase capacity, speed, tooMichael Vasilyev’s goals in his research are simply stated: increase by tenfold the amount of information that can be securely transmitted via the Internet and the distance over which that data can be transmitted. Vasilyev, a UT Arlington associate professor of electrical engineering, is participating in an $8 million research project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency that enlists five universities and three companies to study advanced quantum communications. Conventional or classical communication transmits information