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Spatial Light Modulators Help Quantum Computer Research
A growing number of researchers are using Spatial Light Modulators to develop in the field of quantum computing research. We would like to introduce an application example from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, who is one of Santec's customers.
What is a quantum computer?
A quantum computer can create huge steps forward in processing power that drives some of the phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement. It is a next-generation computer that is expected to solve problems that would take an enormous amount of time with a conventional computer.
MIT has ongoing developments focused on the next foundations of computing, communications, and sensing. They are working on new materials and superconducting devices for theories related to quantum computing.
Spatial light modulators help quantum computer research
Spatial light modulators are key components for realizing quantum computers. They are used to form optical wavefronts, generate hundreds of individually focused optical tweezers beams, and study new amplitude and phase modulation algorithms.
(SLM Application Research Examples courtesy of Ian Christen, MIT.)
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Santec's spatial light modulator in action at MIT
We visited Prof. Englund's lab at MIT in May 2022. Seven of Santec's SLM-200s, one SLM-300, and one SLM-210 were being used for the quantum computing research.
When we asked them why they chose Santec's products among the other spatial light modulators, they replied, "Reliability and phase stability. At CLEO 2022 (the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics), six of MIT researchers presented papers on quantum computers using Santec's spatial light modulators. MIT plans to use more spatial light modulators in the future.
Santec's spatial light modulator featured in CLEO 2022 paper
Many papers at CLEO 2022 mentioned Santec's SLM with their application which might be your interest. Please check out below.
- Large Scale Frequency-Encoded RF-Photonic Neural Networks
- Resonant Spatial Light Modulation With Wafer-Scale, Inverse-Designed Microcavity Arrays
- Optimal Optical Beamsteering With Phase-Amplitude Coupled Elements
- Scalable Multi-Channel Optical Waveform Generation With Lithium Niobate
- Scalable Optical Control for Atomic Qubits in a Silicon Nitride Platform
- Qp-SLM: an Open-Source Holography Suite for Spatial Light Modulators
- Cavity-Enhanced Emission From an Ensemble of Color Centers in Silicon
- Single Photon Emission From Waveguide-Integrated Color Centers in Silicon
- Programmable Multimode Interference in a VIS-NIR Photonics Platform
- Design and Protocol of a Spin-Optomechanical Quantum Repeater
- Coherent Optical Neural Network With Injection-Locked VCSELs
- Scalable Ultralow Latency Photonic Tensor Processor
- Electric-Field Programmable Spin Arrays for Scalable Quantum Repeaters
- Scalable Quantum Information Processing Architecture Using a Programmable Array of Spin-Photon Interfaces
- Piezoelectric High-Speed Spatial Light Modulator Based on Guided-Mode Resonances
- All-Photonic Artificial Neural Network Processor via Nonlinear Optics
Santec's spatial light modulator featured in CLEO 2023 paper
Many papers at CLEO 2023 mentioned Santec's SLM with their application which might be your interest. Please check out below.
- *Fast Phase Retrieval: Unique and Stable Complex Object Recovery in O(NLogN) Time (AW4I.5)
- Zero-Change CMOS Nanophotonics: Converting Foundry Semiconductor Chips to Plasmonic Electro-Optic Modulators (STh3R.2)
- *Fast and Coherent Optical Control With 256 Visible-Wavelength Channels (SF1E.3)
- Lithium Niobite on Silicon High Speed Spatial Light Modulator (SF1E.4)
Other paper
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