TUF-ToPiQC:

Toward Utility and Fault-Tolerance for Photonic Quantum Computing. A project funded through the European Trilateral Collaboration on Quantum Innovation.

Goal:

The consortium combines world-leading expertise from France, Germany and the Netherlands, both at the academic and industrial level, to provide an unprecedented push to move photonic quantum computing towards utility (i.e. useful industrial applications in the NISQ regime) and fault tolerance (unlocking the path to large-scale quantum computation). We adopt a holistic approach to addressing these two objectives by covering the full photonic quantum computing stack, from hardware components to integration, to software and algorithms. While targeting critical breakthroughs in quantum computing, the project will also tackle important technological challenges, strengthen each partner’s leadership in their respective domain and impact the development of photonic quantum technologies as a whole in the EU.

The project aims to bring together important commercial and academic knowledge from Germany, the Netherlands, and France in order to advance photonic quantum computing towards fault tolerance and utility (useful industrial applications in the NISQ regime).

This project allows MicroAlign to speed up development and achieving early penetration of the Quantum market of their high-accuracy-fiber arrays. Furthermore, it will speed up market validation and product expansion to the different flavours and its specifications (different types of fibres, wavelengths, etc.) based on market demand. The MicroAlign fiber arrays need to ensure that almost no photon (information) is lost between Quandela’s at the multi fiber-to-waveguid-edge interfaces.

Project is funded through the Quantum Without Borders initiative.

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