Birck Seminar Series: Somewhere over the Quantum Rainbow: The Integrated Future of Frequency-bin Quantum Information Processing

Join Joseph M. Luken from the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering as he presents a vision to close this gap via the quantum frequency processor (QFP), a paradigm leveraging pulse shapers and modulators for universal quantum information processing. After summarizing key tabletop QFP experiments, he will outline a roadmap for fully on-chip frequency-bin photonics, highlighting recent experimental results on polarization-frequency hyperentanglement and line-by-line pulse shaping. Throughout, he hopes to show that—far from an illusory pot of gold—the end of the quantum rainbow leads to a future of scalable, broadband, and microring-centric on-chip quantum information processing.