Imec and Xanadu engage in SiN

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www.electronicsweekly.com, Aug. 18, 2021 – 

Imec and photonics specialist Xanadu have announced a partnership to develop photonic qubits based on SiN waveguides.

Xanadu is developing a quantum computer based on photonics.

"Xanadu's ultimate mission is to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere," says Xanadu founder and CEO Christian Weedbrook, "to do this we have the ambitious goal of reaching one million qubits using photonics."

Specifically, these photonic qubits are based on squeezed states – a type of light generated by chip-integrated silicon photonic devices.

Xanadu's photonic approach offers the benefits of scalability to one million qubits via optical networking, room temperature computation and the ability to leverage Imec's fab.

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