MRI: Acquisition of a Characterization Station for Next Generation Multifunctional Quantum Devices and Systems

MRI：采购下一代多功能量子设备和系统的表征站

• 批准号: 2216293
• 负责人: Nicholas Madamopoulos
• 金额: $ 23.36万
• 依托单位: CUNY City College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2216293&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Characterization; Station; Next

Quantum technology is poised to enable an abrupt change (or a quantum leap) in human capability for computing, communications, and sensing. Scaling up quantum systems, or in other words, increasing computational space, communication distance and measurement sensitivity, is the key for the success of real applications. Integrating quantum photonic components onto a single platform, significantly reduces the size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C), while simultaneously enhancing the power and phase stability, scalability, and manufacturability. Photonics is viewed as an enabling technology for quantum applications. Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) technology offers several critical advantages and provides a versatile testbed for quantum experiments and resources for measurement-based quantum computing, high-dimensional entanglement, quantum communications, quantum information processing and quantum machine learning. Many applications, such as quantum simulators, machine learning, and graph-based computation have a natural implementation by quantum photonics. Furthermore, photonics serves as a tool by which theoretical predictions of topological phenomena can be tested, which has led to the rapid development of topological phases of matter. Topology has also contributed to the growth of photonics by enabling its robust control, even for imperfect devices, and by promoting practical devices for applications in telecommunications, metrology, sensing and processing. As quantum devices and systems are transitioning from theory to practice, and there is a growing interest from research institutions and the private sector, the shortage of skilled scientist and engineers has been identified. Hence, it is not difficult to overemphasize the importance of a solid background in these technologies and the hands-on experience of future science and engineering graduates. An increasing role of technological innovations in local and global economies, and growing competition among technologically advanced nations, makes student training in quantum devices and systems field vital for the US in 21st century. The objective of this MRI is the acquisition of a unique state-of-the-art automated photonics alignment/probe station with a high brightness Photon-Pair source and a dual channel Ultra-low-noise Photon Counter that will enable the characterization of quantum devices and systems. It will enable optical and electronic measurements of multiport quantum devices and systems, thus, addressing the needs for reliable and repeatable measurements, while at the same time minimizing alignment related losses, which are of critical importance in quantum experiments. The characterization of quantum devices in the early stage of the development is critical for their further optimization, as it provides important feedback that allow for device improvements. The characterization station will enable unique measurement capabilities to faculty, researchers, and students at CCNY and will complement fabrication facilities and modeling and simulation capabilities available to the CCNY community. The project will provide opportunities for training to the diverse graduate and undergraduate student body at CCNY, where many of the students are from underrepresented groups. The students will gain experience on the entire spectrum of design-fabrication-testing and characterization of integrated quantum photonic devices. We anticipate that the facility will attract researchers beyond CCNY and will foster further collaborations, which can lead to more scientific interaction and exchange of ideas among the participating researchers. Finally, small/medium size businesses may benefit in the development of their products, by getting access to the proposed system and through collaborative efforts. This will enable the generation of important knowhow and transfer of knowledge from/to CCNY, training of students and development of new scientific knowledge and products that will benefit the US economy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

量子技术有望在人类的计算，通信和传感能力中突然变化（或量子飞跃）。 扩展量子系统，或者换句话说，增加计算空间，通信距离和测量灵敏度，是成功应用程序成功的关键。将量子光子组件集成到单个平台上，大大降低了大小，重量，功率和成本（SWAP-C），同时增强了功率和相位稳定性，可扩展性和生产性。光子学被视为一种用于量子应用的促成技术。光子集成电路（PICS）技术提供了几个关键优势，并为基于测量的量子计算，高维纠缠，量子通信，量子信息处理和量子机器学习提供了多功能测试台，用于量子实验和资源。许多应用程序，例如量子模拟器，机器学习和基于图形的计算都通过量子光子学具有自然实现。此外，光子学是一种可以测试拓扑现象的理论预测的工具，这导致了物质拓扑阶段的快速发展。拓扑还通过实现其健壮的控制，即使是不完善的设备，并促进用于电信，计量，传感和处理中应用的实用设备，从而促进了光子学的增长。 随着量子设备和系统正在从理论到实践过渡，研究机构和私营部门的兴趣越来越大，已经确定了熟练的科学家和工程师的短缺。 因此，不难过分强调这些技术中坚实背景的重要性以及未来科学和工程毕业生的动手经验。 技术创新在本地和全球经济体中的作用越来越多，以及技术先进国家之间日益增长的竞争，使学生在21世纪对美国至关重要的量子设备和系统领域的培训。 该MRI的目的是获得具有高亮度光子对源的独特最先进的自动光子对齐/探针站和双通道超低光子柜台，该计数器将使量子设备和系统的表征能够表征。 它将实现多端量子设备和系统的光学测量和电子测量，从而满足了可靠且可重复的测量的需求，同时最大程度地减少了对准相关的损失，这在量子实验中至关重要。 在开发的早期阶段，量子设备的表征对于它们的进一步优化至关重要，因为它提供了重要的反馈，可以改进设备。特征站将为CCNY的教师，研究人员和学生提供独特的测量能力，并将补充制造设施，以及可供CCNY社区提供的建模和模拟功能。 该项目将为CCNY的多元化毕业生和本科生培训提供机会，那里的许多学生来自代表性不足的群体。 学生将获得在整个设计制作测试和集成量子光子设备的表征的经验。我们预计该设施将吸引CCNY以外的研究人员，并将促进进一步的合作，这可能会导致参与研究人员之间更科学的互动和思想交流。最后，中小型企业可以通过访问拟议的系统并通过协作努力来受益于其产品的开发。 这将使重要的知识和知识从/到CCNY的转移，对学生的培训以及将有益于美国经济的新科学知识和产品的发展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来进行评估。