"Under a four-year, $2 million US National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, Rochester University will lead a photonics system integration research project to reduce the complexity and increase the capacity of quantum information processing for secure communication, metrology, sensing, and advanced computing.

"Our team will build chip-scale integrated SiC quantum photonic processors for high-fidelity and energy-efficient quantum information processing, which interface seamlessly with fibre-optic links for secure communication and distribution of quantum information," said Lin, principal investigator of the project and director of the University's Laboratory for Quantum, Nonlinear and Mechanical Photonics. "We have a very strong, multidisciplinary, multi-university team of experts for this project, coming together in a shared vision," said Lin."

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