RAISE-EQuIP: A high-speed, reconfigurable, fully integrated circuit platform for quantum photonic applications

RAISE-Equip型：用于量子光子应用的高速、可重构、全集成电路平台量子光子学利用光子耐人寻味的量子特性进行信息处理。光子量子态的快速操纵和快速变换是量子通信和计算能力和能力的关键。然而，到目前为止，这仍然是一个开放的挑战，成为加速光子量子信息处理的瓶颈。另一方面，目前的集成量子光子电路严重依赖外部片外激光光源来正常工作，这成为限制量子光子电路集成和小型化的主要障碍，这反过来又限制了它们所能提供的功能复杂程度。拟议的研究旨在应对这些挑战。在我们团队的协同研究努力下，我们提出将重点放在创新的电路和系统级工程上，构建可灵活重新配置和高速调制的大规模全集成量子光子电路系统，旨在实现其他手段无法实现的具有前所未有的功能复杂性的新型量子功能。拟议的研究涵盖了装备计划的所有三个推力。通过我们提议的研究，我们设想了一条通向集成量子光子学的完全变革性的途径，最终可能会彻底改变通信和信息处理的技术水平，将其成熟度提升到将对工业部门产生重大影响的实际实施水平。拟议的研究提供各种跨学科领域的综合培训，包括量子和集成光子学、高速射频电路、电子电路设计、激光和信号处理，为未来的量子工程行业培养劳动力。这项研究的目的是探索和开发高速、可灵活重构、全集成的量子光子电路，提供前所未有的操作、转换和转换光子量子态、编码/解码和处理量子信息的能力。为此，我们组建了一支由多学科专家组成的团队，他们在量子光子学、纳米光子学、光电子集成、高速射频电路、电子IC设计、半导体激光器、混合光电子集成方面拥有强大的专业知识和丰富的经验，旨在提出一项基础研究工作，旨在实现可扩展的高速混合量子光子电路系统，其性能远远超出单个组件的能力。拟议的研究将把底层材料平台的突出和独特的特性与创新的电路和系统设计、工程和激光芯片集成完美地结合在一起，实现大规模集成量子光子电路的超高速调制、调谐和重新配置，从而使新型量子光子功能具有前所未有的功能复杂性和能力。初步结果显示，实现这些目标大有可为。我们团队强大的专业知识和丰富的经验使我们在拟议的研究项目中独树一帜。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

RAISE-EQuIP: A high-speed, reconfigurable, fully integrated circuit platform for quantum photonic applicationsQuantum photonics utilizes the intriguing quantum characteristics of photons for information processing. Fast manipulation and transformation of photonic quantum states at a high speed underlie crucially the capability and capacity of quantum communication and computing. However, to date, it remains an open challenge to do so, which becomes a bottleneck for the speedup of photonic quantum information processing. On the other hand, current integrated quantum photonic circuits rely seriously on external off-chip laser sources for proper operation, which becomes a major obstacle limiting the integration and miniaturization of quantum photonic circuits which in turn limits the degree of functional complexity they can offer. The proposed research aims to address these challenges. With the synergetic research effort of our team, we propose to focus on innovative circuit- and system-level engineering to build large-scale fully-integrated quantum photonic circuit systems that can be flexibly reconfigured and modulated at high speed, aiming to achieve novel quantum functionalities with unprecedented functional complexity inaccessible to other means. The proposed research covers all three thrusts of the EQuIP program. With our proposed research, we envision an entirely transformative avenue towards integrated quantum photonics that may ultimately revolutionize the state of the art of communication and information processing, advancing its maturity level towards practical implementation that would have significant impact on industrial sectors. The proposed research offers comprehensive training in the diverse interdisciplinary areas of quantum and integrated photonics, high-speed RF circuitry, electronic circuit design, lasers, and signal processing, to prepare workforces for future quantum engineering industry. It will also result in promoting the interest and participation of K-12 students and broadening the participations from underrepresented groups, through outreach programs.The proposed research aims to explore and develop high-speed, flexibly reconfigurable, fully integrated quantum photonic circuits that offer unprecedented capability of manipulating, translating, and transducing photonic quantum states, encoding/decoding and processing quantum information. To this end, we have assembled a multidisciplinary team of leading experts with strong expertise and extensive experience in quantum photonics, nanophotonics, optoelectronic integration, high-speed RF circuitry, electronic IC design, semiconductor lasers, hybrid optoelectronic integration, to propose a fundamental research effort directed at the realization of scalable high-speed hybrid quantum photonic circuit systems that perform significantly beyond the reach of single individual components. The proposed research will integrate elegantly the outstanding and unique properties of underlying material platforms with innovative circuit and system design and engineering and laser-chip integration to realize very high speed modulation, tuning, and reconfiguration of large-scale integrated quantum photonic circuits that would enable novel quantum photonic functionalities with unprecedented functional complexity and capability. The preliminary results show great promise to achieve these goals. The strong expertise and extensive experiences of our team position us uniquely for the proposed research project.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.