family The Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) is leading QUANTUMABLE-1, a project that seeks to develop a new photonic architecture capable of processing quantum information using light, an idea that until now lived halfway between theory and the most advanced laboratories.
The core of the project is based on a technology patented by UPV: the FPPGA (Field Programmable Photonic Gate Array). This innovation allows for the creation of programmable photonic chips, similar to electronic FPGAs, but working entirely with light. Now, the challenge is to adapt this platform to the quantum world, achieving that these chips can program, control, and manipulate quantum signals based on photons.
The goal is to pave the way towards photonic quantum processors: devices that are faster, more precise, and more efficient, with direct applications in communications, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. According to the principal researcher, Ivana Gasulla, it is being demonstrated that light can become the real foundation of future computing.
Furthermore, the project seeks to integrate photon sources and detectors into a single chip, reduce optical losses, and develop control algorithms capable of managing qubits with redundancy, something crucial for maintaining the stability of quantum information, which is always so delicate.
In essence, QUANTUMABLE-1 aims to take programmable integrated photonics to a completely new level, offering a scalable, practical, and adaptable path towards real quantum computing, useful for industry and not just for laboratories.
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