Activity: Other activity types › Fellowship awarded competitively
Description
Quantum information will revolutionise computing. Many technologies compete to underpin this quantum computing revolution, but everything remains to play for. Quantum bits stored in light are low noise and easily transmitted. The problem is technological: scaling up is hard. Industrial silicon optics is our best hope for quantum computation with light, but silicon, at the usual wavelengths, has fundamental limitations on performance and manufacturability. This project transcends engineering and science to overcome these limitations. By translating silicon quantum photonics to longer wavelengths, in the mid-infrared, and by tightly integrating electronics, we will achieve the first quantum computation with light. Early Career Fellowship ECF-2018-276