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Quantum Optics Jena has launched a European-backed project to integrate key quantum key distribution functions onto a single silicon chip, aiming to make quantum-secure communications smaller, less expensive and easier to deploy in data centers, campus networks and critical infrastructure.
The three-year PIC-PAM project brings together six partners from Germany’s Thüringen region to combine photonics, microelectronics and semiconductor manufacturing expertise into compact modules that can fit within standard network hardware.
The consortium plans to develop a monolithic chip that integrates photon polarization analysis, single-photon detection and timing electronics, with the goal of creating an SFP-like module that simplifies the deployment of quantum-secure networking technology.
PRESS RELEASE — Quantum Optics Jena has launched a new initiative to shrink quantum security onto a silicon chip by making quantum-secure communications smaller, cheaper and easier to deploy by integrating core quantum key distribution (QKD) functions into compact modules suitable for data centres, campus networks and critical infrastructure.
