Englund group (MIT)
- Institution
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Lab / Centre
- Quantum Photonics Laboratory · Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
- Location
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Group website
- https://qp.mit.edu/
Dirk Englund's MIT group works at the intersection of integrated quantum photonics and quantum networking. The programme covers colour-centre qubits (SiV, NV, SnV) heterogeneously integrated onto photonic chips, scalable photonic quantum-network nodes, on-chip microwave-to-optical transduction, and superconducting-nanowire single-photon detectors. The group is a collaborator on the Boston-loop repeater demonstrations led from Harvard, and builds much of the photonic-integration plumbing that the wider Boston quantum- networking ecosystem runs on.
Current focus: Quantum photonics
Milestones
People
- Dirk Englund — Principal Investigator — Director, Quantum Photonics Laboratory (since 2013) ↗
Funding
- DARPA — Quantum-network and photonic-integration programmes
- Army Research Office (ARO) — Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives on quantum networking
- National Science Foundation (NSF) — Center for Quantum Networks (CQN) and Engineering Research Center grants
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory — Joint photonic-integration and detector programmes
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) — Quantum Internet and quantum-network testbed programmes
References
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[@knaut-nature-2024]Knaut et al. — Boston-loop entanglement over 35 km telecom fibre (paper) - Bhaskar et al. Nature 580, 60 (2020) — memory-enhanced quantum communication with SiV (paper)