Programmable Laser Beam Shaping Tools for Exciton-Polariton Quantum Simulators

我需要两个空间光调制器(SLM)和可编程光束整形工具，以支持我们正在进行的构建激子-偏振量子模拟器(QS)作为下一代高性能计算平台的项目。在信息时代的核心，各种格式的数据被生成并作为常见的音频或视频信号、文本和电子邮件进行处理。而复杂和大数据是满足现代社会日益增长的信息共享需求所必需的。此外，这些数据的大小每年几乎翻一番。因此，人们对高性能计算技术提出了很高的要求，这些技术旨在高效地处理海量数据，并可控地解决高度复杂的计算问题。多年来，我们团队一直在开发基于激子-偏振子的光子计算平台，通过一系列的理论和实验研究活动，该平台可以利用系统的非线性和强光-物质相互作用的特点提供良好的计算优势。到目前为止，我们利用半导体材料生长和器件纳米加工技术建立了固定几何形状的激子-极化激子QS的原型。我们对它们进行了光学表征，以了解它们的基本工作原理、系统动力学、节点连接和节点到节点的耦合。现在我们需要制定实际应用来建立可编程的激子-偏振子光子QS。成功进行技术转换的关键技术是光学装置中激光器的可逆可编程性和动态控制，因为这使我们能够容易地研究各种类型的情况。我们认为，作为一种成熟的光学技术，SLM是满足我们需求的最佳解决方案，它可以设计用于定义单个站点和为每个站点的多个阵列构图的激光光束轮廓。此外，我们需要两个SLM，以便同时独立地设计激光器的两个相反的偏振态，以表示作为基本信息单元的二元态。所提出的SLM模型的高反射率是广泛控制激光功率范围的理想选择，这样我们就可以充分利用激光的容量和非线性作为一种新的功能。因此，我们选择的SLM模型可以让我们达到所有必要的技术规格，以创建适合复杂和大规模问题的密集节点阵列。由于SLM被认为是在空间和时间上控制激光和量子系统的最先进的量子光学技术，因此学生获得这种先进光学技术的实践经验对于他们在量子计算领域的全球领先地位至关重要。有了SLM，我们的可编程激子-偏振子QS将为及时构建功能强大、功能强大的光子计算平台铺平道路，并以快速和紧凑的足迹实现良好的商业实施。

I request two spatial light modulators (SLMs), programmable optical beam shaping tools that can support our on-going project of building exciton-polariton quantum simulators (QS) as a next-generation high-performance computing platform. At the heart of the Information age, various formats of data are generated and handled as common audio or video signals, texts, and emails. And complex and big data are necessary to satisfy growing demands of information sharing in modern society. Moreover, the size of these data increases almost double up every year. Hence, high performance computing technologies are on high demand that aim to handle big sized data efficiently and to solve highly complicated computation problems controllably. Our group has been developing a photonic computing platform based on exciton-polaritons that can offer promising computational advantages from the system traits of nonlinearity and strong light-matter interactions through series of theoretical and experimental research activities for many years.   So far, we built prototypes of an exciton-polariton QS in fixed geometries using semiconductor material growth and device nanofabrication processing techniques. We characterized them optically to understand the basic operation principles, system dynamics, node connectivity and node-to-node coupling. Now we need to formulate practical applications to establish programmable exciton-polariton photonic QS. A critical technique for successful technological transition is reversible programmability and dynamical control of lasers in our optical setup because this allows us to study various types of situations readily.   We identify that the SLM is the best solution to our needs as a well-established optical technology to design laser beam profiles for defining a single site and for patterning multiple arrays of each site. Furthermore, we request two SLMs in order to engineer two opposite polarization states of lasers independently at the same time to represent binary states as a basic information unit. The high reflectivity of the proposed SLM models is desirable to control the laser power range widely so that we can exploit the full laser capacity and nonlinearity as a new functionality. Therefore, our selected SLM model can allow us to achieve all necessary technical specifications to create densely packed node arrays which are suitable for complex and large-scale problems. Since the SLM is regarded as state-of-the art quantum optical technologies to control lasers and quantum systems spatially and temporally, it is critical that students acquire hands-on experience in this advanced optical technology for their global leadership in quantum computing sectors. With the SLMs, our programmable exciton-polariton QS will pave ways to construct a powerful and competent photonic computing platform in a timely action with fast speed and compact footprints for favorable commercial implementation.