Descrizione del progetto
Una migliore funzionalità quantistica su un circuito di ricetrasmettitore integrato
La potenza di calcolo senza limiti è la caratteristica principale del computer quantistico del futuro. Tuttavia, tale potenza metterebbe in pericolo la sicurezza delle informazioni che condividiamo quotidianamente. La tecnologia basata sulla distribuzione a chiave quantistica fornisce una sicurezza teorica delle informazioni, persino in presenza di una potenza di calcolo illimitata. Tuttavia, gli attuali sistemi di distribuzione a chiave quantistica sono ingombranti e mirati principalmente ad applicazioni governative e militari. L’azienda PHOTON IP, con sede nei Paesi Bassi, sta sviluppando un motore miniaturizzato da 100 G ad alte prestazioni su un singolo chip. Questo sistema quantistico su chip è compatibile con i fattori di forma più piccoli per i ricetrasmettitori collegabili utilizzati nelle reti di accesso. Grazie al sostegno del progetto NARWHAL, finanziato dall’UE, l’azienda PHOTON IP sta lavorando alla commercializzazione della sua tecnologia di sistema quantistico su chip.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
- 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
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedCoordinatore
5612AJ EINDHOVEN
Paesi Bassi
L’organizzazione si è definita una PMI (piccola e media impresa) al momento della firma dell’accordo di sovvenzione.