High-Speed Quantum Communications Using Silicon Photonics
Abstract
The goal of this program is to greatly improve the performance of quantum secure communications through new algorithms and components leveraging modern silicon photonic integrated circuits. Objectives include hardware and protocol designs consistent with physically-motivated restrictions to eavesdropping, with the ultimate goal of reaching a secure-key generation rate exceeding 40 Mbps in a multi-user network; fabrication and demonstration of all required system components; closing of side-channel attacks; fundamental investigations on the use of nonlinear optics in silicon photonics circuits for scalable production of photonic cluster states and other encoded quantum states with protection against photon loss; and theoretical investigations of photonic integrated circuit technology for all-optical quantum repeater networks.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Dec 05, 2016
- Source ID
- FA95501610391
Entities
People
- Dirk Englund
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Harvard University
- United States Air Force