The development of integrated photonics and advanced material platforms is rapidly transforming the generation of quantum light. It is now possible to produce single photons, entangled photon pairs, ...

Light-based quantum technologies, such as quantum communication and photonic quantum computing, require reliable sources of individual photons and, ideally, pairs of entangled photons. Semiconductor ...

Photonic integrated circuits are the optical equivalent of microchips, using semiconductor industry processes to shrink many photonic components down onto a piece of material often smaller than a ...

Photonic quantum processors, devices that can process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects and particles of light (photons), have shown promise for numerous applications, ranging from ...

In an ongoing effort to bring quantum science out of the tightly controlled lab environment and into the field, researchers from UC Santa Barbara and the University of Massachusetts Amherst have, for ...

Forward-looking: Researchers from Boston University, UC Berkeley, and Northwestern University have developed an integrated system that combines electronic, photonic, and quantum components on a single ...

Machine learning models called convolutional neural networks (CNNs) power technologies like image recognition and language translation. A quantum counterpart—known as a quantum convolutional neural ...

A programmable photonic circuit has been developed that can execute various quantum algorithms and is potentially highly scalable. This device could pave the way for large-scale quantum computers ...

Photonic integrated circuits are chip-scale systems that guide, modulate, detect, generate, or process light using integrated optical components on a common platform. Sometimes described as optical ...

Photonic quantum technologies use particles of light to encode, transmit, process, or measure quantum information. They include quantum communication, quantum key distribution, photonic quantum ...