Description du projet
Optimisation de la fonctionnalité quantique sur un circuit émetteur-récepteur intégré
La principale caractéristique du futur ordinateur quantique est sa puissance de calcul illimitée. Disposer de cette puissance mettrait en péril la sécurité des informations partagées dans notre vie quotidienne. La technologie de distribution quantique des clés (QKD) apporte une sécurité basée sur la théorie de l’information, même avec une puissance de calcul illimitée. Toutefois, les systèmes QKD actuels sont encombrants et principalement destinés aux applications gouvernementales et de défense. La société néerlandaise PHOTON IP développe un moteur miniaturisé de haute performance de 100G sur puce unique. Ce système quantique sur puce (QSoC) est compatible avec les plus petits facteurs de forme des émetteurs-récepteurs enfichables utilisés dans les réseaux d’accès. Avec le soutien du projet NARWHAL financé par l’UE, PHOTON IP prépare la commercialisation de sa technologie QSoC.
Objectif
Quantum computing, forecasted to happen within 10 years, will bring unprecedented computing power, rendering obsolete current data security protocols based on public keys, affecting our open society, our business and basic individual rights. Quantum key distribution (QKD) technology can solve this strategic data security problem by providing information-theoretic security, making systems unbreakable even with unlimited computing power. However, until now, technology development for QKD has been focused on government and defence applications, with solutions made of discrete components in big boxes only a few can afford. With equal access to secure communications at stake, what is missing is a solution fit for mass-market industrialization to embed QKD technology in the fixed and mobile networks we rely on every day. PhotonIP offers such a solution: a quantum ready, high-performance, dual polarization 100G miniaturized engine on a single chip, Quantum System on Chip (QSoC), compatible with the smallest form factors for pluggable transceivers deployed in access networks and using the same wavelength channel for classic and quantum operations. The project aims to develop a technology demonstrator of a QSoC that is ready for pilot production and offers breakthrough performance at low cost and full compatibility with current and future optical communications infrastructure. This proposal builds on the UniQorn FET project on Quantum Technologies (GA820474), where PhotonIP's founders developed a differential phase shift transmitter on a photonic integrated circuit fit for secure quantum key distribution and leverage PhotonIP proprietary and patented Hip_ technology, a high-performance integration platform that allows a unique hybridization of the Photonics Integrated Circuit (PIC), which integrates best-in-class best in class InP based materials for all active functionality with best-in-class Silicon on Insulator for the optical passive functionality on-chip.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitydata protection
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesquantum physics
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitycryptography
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksmobile network
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcomputer hardwarequantum computers
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedCoordinateur
5612AJ EINDHOVEN
Pays-Bas
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.