Programmable photonic integrated meshes for modular generation of optical entanglement links
Abstract
Abstract Large-scale generation of quantum entanglement between individually controllable qubits is at the core of quantum computing, communications, and sensing. Modular architectures of remotely-connected quantum technologies have been proposed for a variety of physical qubits, with demonstrations reported in atomic and all-photonic systems. However, an open challenge in these architectures lies in constructing high-speed and high-fidelity reconfigurable photonic networks for optically-heralded entanglement among target qubits. Here we introduce a programmable photonic integrated circuit (PIC), realized in a piezo-actuated silicon nitride (SiN)-in-oxide CMOS-compatible process, that implements an N × N Mach–Zehnder mesh (MZM) capable of high-speed execution of linear optical transformations. The visible-spectrum photonic integrated mesh is programmed to generate optical connectivity on up to N = 8 inputs for a range of optically-heralded entanglement protocols. In particular, we experimentally demonstrated optical connections between 16 independent pairwise mode couplings through the MZM, with optical transformation fidelities averaging 0.991 ± 0.0063. The PIC’s reconfigurable optical connectivity suffices for the production of 8-qubit resource states as building blocks of larger topological cluster states for quantum computing. Our programmable PIC platform enables the fast and scalable optical switching technology necessary for network-based quantum information processors.
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- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1971678
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1974393
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-224427-2023-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2056-6387; 42; PII: 708
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- npj Quantum Information
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: npj Quantum Information Journal Volume: 9 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2056-6387
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; integrated optics; quantum information
Citation Formats
Dong, Mark, Zimmermann, Matthew, Heim, David, Choi, Hyeongrak, Clark, Genevieve, Leenheer, Andrew J., Palm, Kevin J., Witte, Alex, Dominguez, Daniel, Gilbert, Gerald, Eichenfield, Matt, and Englund, Dirk. Programmable photonic integrated meshes for modular generation of optical entanglement links. United Kingdom: N. p., 2023.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41534-023-00708-6.
Dong, Mark, Zimmermann, Matthew, Heim, David, Choi, Hyeongrak, Clark, Genevieve, Leenheer, Andrew J., Palm, Kevin J., Witte, Alex, Dominguez, Daniel, Gilbert, Gerald, Eichenfield, Matt, & Englund, Dirk. Programmable photonic integrated meshes for modular generation of optical entanglement links. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-023-00708-6
Dong, Mark, Zimmermann, Matthew, Heim, David, Choi, Hyeongrak, Clark, Genevieve, Leenheer, Andrew J., Palm, Kevin J., Witte, Alex, Dominguez, Daniel, Gilbert, Gerald, Eichenfield, Matt, and Englund, Dirk. Thu .
"Programmable photonic integrated meshes for modular generation of optical entanglement links". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-023-00708-6.
@article{osti_1971678,
title = {Programmable photonic integrated meshes for modular generation of optical entanglement links},
author = {Dong, Mark and Zimmermann, Matthew and Heim, David and Choi, Hyeongrak and Clark, Genevieve and Leenheer, Andrew J. and Palm, Kevin J. and Witte, Alex and Dominguez, Daniel and Gilbert, Gerald and Eichenfield, Matt and Englund, Dirk},
abstractNote = {Abstract Large-scale generation of quantum entanglement between individually controllable qubits is at the core of quantum computing, communications, and sensing. Modular architectures of remotely-connected quantum technologies have been proposed for a variety of physical qubits, with demonstrations reported in atomic and all-photonic systems. However, an open challenge in these architectures lies in constructing high-speed and high-fidelity reconfigurable photonic networks for optically-heralded entanglement among target qubits. Here we introduce a programmable photonic integrated circuit (PIC), realized in a piezo-actuated silicon nitride (SiN)-in-oxide CMOS-compatible process, that implements an N × N Mach–Zehnder mesh (MZM) capable of high-speed execution of linear optical transformations. The visible-spectrum photonic integrated mesh is programmed to generate optical connectivity on up to N = 8 inputs for a range of optically-heralded entanglement protocols. In particular, we experimentally demonstrated optical connections between 16 independent pairwise mode couplings through the MZM, with optical transformation fidelities averaging 0.991 ± 0.0063. The PIC’s reconfigurable optical connectivity suffices for the production of 8-qubit resource states as building blocks of larger topological cluster states for quantum computing. Our programmable PIC platform enables the fast and scalable optical switching technology necessary for network-based quantum information processors.},
doi = {10.1038/s41534-023-00708-6},
journal = {npj Quantum Information},
number = 1,
volume = 9,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Thu Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2023},
month = {Thu Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2023}
}
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