Painter group (Caltech / AWS)
- Institution
- California Institute of Technology
- Lab / Centre
- Quantum Optomechanics group · Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM)
- Also
- AWS Center for Quantum Computing (Oskar Painter is Director, Caltech-adjacent)
- Location
- Pasadena, California, USA
- Group website
- https://painterlab.caltech.edu
Oskar Painter's group at Caltech combines optomechanical microwave-to-optical transduction with superconducting cavity QED, and the same leadership extends to the AWS Center for Quantum Computing on the Caltech campus where Painter is Director. The programme bridges Caltech academic and AWS commercial quantum-computing R&D. The group's piezo-optomechanical transducers are among the leading candidates for closing the cryogenic-microwave-to-telecom gap that any superconducting-qubit network must cross.
Current focus: Quantum photonics, superconducting circuits and optomechanics — Per the group's own framing (painterlab.caltech.edu): the Quantum Photonics Group focuses on superconducting quantum circuits for quantum information processing and quantum simulation, the quantum physics of mesoscopic mechanical objects, hybrid superconducting and acoustic quantum circuits, and precision optomechanical sensors.
Milestones
People
- Oskar Painter — Principal Investigator (Caltech) & Director, AWS Center for Quantum Computing (since 2019) ↗
Funding
- National Science Foundation (NSF) — Programme grants supporting optomechanics and quantum-transduction research
- DARPA — Programme funding for microwave-to-optical transduction and quantum networking
- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM), Caltech — Host institute; NSF Physics Frontiers Center
- AWS (internal R&D) — Funds the AWS Center for Quantum Computing on Caltech campus