A 12-mode Universal Photonic Processor for Quantum Information Processing

Understand

Photonic processors are pivotal for both quantum and classical information processing tasks using light.

• In particular, linear optical quantum information processing requires both largescale and low-loss programmable photonic processors.
• In this paper, we report the demonstration of the largest universal quantum photonic processor to date: a low-loss, 12-mode fully tunable linear interferometer with all-to-all coupling based on stoichiometric silicon nitride waveguides.