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project info
Start date: 1 January 2024
End date: 30 September 2026
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 1 499 905,00 €
EU contribution: 447 163,45 € (29,81%)
programme
Programming period: 2021-2027
European Commission Topic
European Commission Topic

QuLight Detection

In the operation of a quantum computer based on integrated photonics, thousands of detectors are needed. To scale up the quantum computer, it is important to find a smaller and cheaper alternative to the Superconducting Nanowire Single Photons Detector (SNSPD) currently in use. In the QuLight Detection project, a Single Photon Detector (SPD) is developed that is many times more scalable than the current detectors. With the intended detectors, energy consumption is reduced by a factor of 10, the size by a factor of 30 and the cost price by a factor of 10 compared to the SNSPDs. In this project, these new detectors, including the required optical coupling, will be designed, tested and validated in a quantum computer test set-up.

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