Quantum Integrated Photonics: Heterogeneous Integration in Foundry Level Devices

Silicon integrated photonics has grown in the last decade to fill the market with classical devices that offer tremendous SWaP benefits over conventional bulk optics or fiber components. For quantum systems the material and device losses present were still too large to allow for larger scaling of systems at the single and low photon level. Over the last couple years, both industry and government laboratories have worked closely with commercial foundries to drop the optical losses to levels that now can scale quantum systems. This research area, the results, and the next steps forward for integrating other materials and qubit systems into the platform will be the subject of my talk.

Bio: Michael Fanto is a Senior Research Physicist with the Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate in the Quantum Technologies Branch located in Rome, New York. He is the experimental lead for the quantum information processing group where he conducts research on quantum integrated photonics, heterogeneous qubit integration, entanglement distribution, quantum networking, and quantum information processing. He completed his BS degree in Physics from Utica College, and his Ph.D. in Microsystems Engineering focused on ultrawide-bandgap quantum integrated photonics from Rochester Institute of Technology.