Innovation area - Photonic systems for quantum control and information processing 

Photonic devices hybridized with atomic vapors for quantum information processing

The project aims to develop a novel platform for photonic quantum information processing (QIP) by hybridizing micro- and nanostructured photonic devices with thermal rubidium vapors. The previous innovation project of the team resulted in the development and characterization of compact hybridized photonic resonators. This project seeks to advance these results and to develop hybridized hardware platforms with strong nonlinearities up to an initial level of practical viability. The goal is to create and test a systematic and quantitative framework for design, description, and realization of micro/nanostructured photonic components with resonators hybridized with atomic vapors. The performance parameters will be numerically and experimentally quantified, especially regarding the strength of the atomic nonlinearities enhanced by photonic structures, and identify practical recipes to further improve performance. Finally, the aim is to demonstrate experimentally the viability of this hybrid system for QIP (gate operation, quantum light generation).