Key Takeaways Optical waveguides guide light using refractive index contrast, essential for quantum photonic circuits. Strip, rib, and slot geometries offer trade-offs in confinement and loss. Key design priorities include minimizing propagation and coupling losses, maintaining phase stability, and enabling dense, scalable integration. Materials like silicon, SiN, LiNbO₃, and AlN support varied quantum functions. Applications […]
Key Takeaways Silicon photonics leverages light to transmit quantum information with low loss, minimal noise, and high scalability. It enables dense, room-temperature quantum interconnects, integrates with classical CMOS logic, and supports photonic quantum computing architectures. Compared to traditional electronics, photonics offers greater bandwidth, lower energy consumption, and better signal fidelity. While challenges like scalable photon […]
