Photonics for Quantum

Sandia’s extensive quantum photonics platform provides a customizable portfolio of tried and tested photonic building blocks, a baseline platform with a powerful process and design kit (PDK), and flexible fabrication processes to create new and innovative quantum microsystems for scientific exploration. Sandia’s advanced in-house optical and electrical packaging and heterogenous integration capability puts new co-designed devices for advanced quantum photonic applications in researchers’ hands for testing.

Key Capabilities

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Qubits – Ionic qubits using surface electrode ion traps with integrated photonic waveguides, light delivery, and integrated on-chip modulators; solid state diamond vacancy centers

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Silicon Photonics Platform – Silicon photonics, low loss alumina waveguides, cryogenic modulators, frequency combs, Ge on Si single photon avalanche detector, heterogeneously-integrated lasers

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GaAs PIC Platform – Narrow linewidth lasers, amplifiers, cryogenic modulators, and detectors

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Dielectric Multi-Wavelength Platform – Visible, UV and NIR capability, low loss waveguides, thermo-optic modulation, cryogenically-compatible piezoelectric modulation, detectors, heterogeneously-integrated lasers, acousto-optics

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Narrow Linewidth Sources – Narrow linewidth VCSELs

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