Photonic integrated circuits(PICs)are expected to play a significant role in the ongoing second quantum revolution,thanks to their stability and scalability.Still,major upgrades are needed for available PIC platforms ...Photonic integrated circuits(PICs)are expected to play a significant role in the ongoing second quantum revolution,thanks to their stability and scalability.Still,major upgrades are needed for available PIC platforms to meet the demanding requirements of quantum devices.We present a review of our recent progress in upgrading an unconventional silicon photonics platform toward this goal,including ultralow propagation losses,low-fiber coupling losses,integration of superconducting elements,Faraday rotators,fast and efficient detectors,and phase modulators with low-loss and/or low-energy consumption.We show the relevance of our developments and our vision in the main applications of quantum key distribution,to achieve significantly higher key rates and large-scale deployment;and cryogenic quantum computers,to replace electrical connections to the cryostat with optical fibers.展开更多
基金supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program through projects aCryComm(Grant No.899558)Quantum e-leaps(Grant No.862660)+8 种基金OpenSuperQ(Grant No.820363)EFINED(Grant No.766853)EMPIR SuperQuant(Project No.20FUN07)support by the Academy of Finland Flagship Program,Photonics Research and Innovation(PREIN)(Decision No.320168)VTT Internal Quantum Initiative“Quantum leap in quantum control.”This work was performed as part of the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence program(Project No.336817)projects ETHEC(Grant No.322580)QuantLearn(Grant No.350220)support from Business Finland through projects QuTI(No.40562/31/2020)PICAP(No.44065/31/2020).
文摘Photonic integrated circuits(PICs)are expected to play a significant role in the ongoing second quantum revolution,thanks to their stability and scalability.Still,major upgrades are needed for available PIC platforms to meet the demanding requirements of quantum devices.We present a review of our recent progress in upgrading an unconventional silicon photonics platform toward this goal,including ultralow propagation losses,low-fiber coupling losses,integration of superconducting elements,Faraday rotators,fast and efficient detectors,and phase modulators with low-loss and/or low-energy consumption.We show the relevance of our developments and our vision in the main applications of quantum key distribution,to achieve significantly higher key rates and large-scale deployment;and cryogenic quantum computers,to replace electrical connections to the cryostat with optical fibers.
