Applications of nanophotonics to classical and quantum information technology

TY - GEN

T1 - Applications of nanophotonics to classical and quantum information technology

AU - Beausoleil, R. G.

AU - Fattal, D.

AU - Florentino, M.

AU - Santori, C. M.

AU - Snider, G.

AU - Spillane, S. M.

AU - Williams, R. S.

AU - Munro, W. J.

AU - Spiller, T. P.

AU - Rabeau, J. R.

AU - Prawer, S.

AU - Jelezko, F.

AU - Tamarat, P.

AU - Wrachtrup, J.

AU - Hemmer, P.

PY - 2006/11/28

Y1 - 2006/11/28

N2 - Moore's Law has set great expectations that the performance/price ratio of commercially available semiconductor devices will continue to improve exponentially at least until the end of the next decade. Although the physics of nanoscale silicon transistors alone would allow these expectations to be met, the physics of the metal wires that connect these transistors will soon place stringent limits on the performance of integrated circuits. We will describe a Si-compatible global interconnect architecture - based on chip-scale optical wavelength division multiplexing - that could precipitate an "optical Moore's Law" and allow exponential performance gains until the transistors themselves become the bottleneck. Based on similar fabrication techniques and technologies, we will also present an approach to an optically-coupled quantum information processor for computation beyond Moore's Law, encouraging the development of practical applications of quantum information technology for commercial utilization. We present recent results demonstrating coherent population trapping in single N-V diamond color centers as an important first step in this direction.

AB - Moore's Law has set great expectations that the performance/price ratio of commercially available semiconductor devices will continue to improve exponentially at least until the end of the next decade. Although the physics of nanoscale silicon transistors alone would allow these expectations to be met, the physics of the metal wires that connect these transistors will soon place stringent limits on the performance of integrated circuits. We will describe a Si-compatible global interconnect architecture - based on chip-scale optical wavelength division multiplexing - that could precipitate an "optical Moore's Law" and allow exponential performance gains until the transistors themselves become the bottleneck. Based on similar fabrication techniques and technologies, we will also present an approach to an optically-coupled quantum information processor for computation beyond Moore's Law, encouraging the development of practical applications of quantum information technology for commercial utilization. We present recent results demonstrating coherent population trapping in single N-V diamond color centers as an important first step in this direction.

KW - Classical information processing

KW - Quantum information processing

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33751262643&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1117/12.692241

DO - 10.1117/12.692241

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:33751262643

SN - 0819464910

SN - 9780819464910

VL - 6393

BT - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

T2 - Nanophotonics for Communication: Materials, Devices, and Systems III

Y2 - 2 October 2006 through 3 October 2006

ER -