Optical image of the photonic integrated circuit that creates, filters, and manipulates photon pairs in an area of approximately 0.4 square millimeters. [Optical image, above, of the photonic integrated circuit that creates, filters, and manipulates photon pairs in an area of approximately 0.4 square millimeters. Courtesy N. Harris, Quantum Photonics Laboratory.

Photonic integrated circuits are coming closer to implementing the basic components needed for quantum information processing based on the recent work by EECS graduate student Nicholas Harris, a member of the Quantum Photonics Laboratory headed by Dirk Englund, Jamieson Career Development Professor and principal investigator in the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). « more »

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