Advances in photonic integrated circuits have recently enabled electrically reconfigurable
optical systems that can implement universal linear optics transformations on spatial mode …

The femtosecond laser direct‐writing (FLDW) of waveguide circuits in glasses has seen
interest from a number of fields over the previous 20 years. It has evolved from a curiosity to …

Quantum computers promise to perform certain tasks that are believed to be intractable to
classical computers. Boson sampling is such a task and is considered a strong candidate to …

Recent advances in photonic integrated circuits have enabled a new generation of
programmable Mach–Zehnder meshes (MZMs) realized by using cascaded Mach–Zehnder …

Quantum computing experiments are moving into a new realm of increasing size and
complexity, with the short-term goal of demonstrating an advantage over classical …

Quantum algorithms offer a dramatic speedup for computational problems in material
science and chemistry. However, any near-term realizations of these algorithms will need to …

This is a short overview explaining how building a large-scale, silicon-photonic quantum
computer has been reduced to the creation of good sources of 3-photon entangled states …

Many advanced optical functions, including spatial mode converters, linear optics quantum
computing gates, and arbitrary linear optical processors for communications and other …

Waveguide lattices offer a compact and stable platform for a range of applications, including
quantum walks, condensed matter system simulation, and classical and quantum …

Programmable photonic circuits of reconfigurable interferometers can be used to implement
arbitrary operations on optical modes, providing a flexible platform for accelerating tasks in …