University of Colorado Boulder - Department of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering

New Capabilities

Leading CMOS photonics research for quantum computing

Quantum computers promise to revolutionize drug discovery, cryptography, and materials science—but only if they can scale from today's dozens of qubits to millions. The bottleneck isn't the qubits themselves; it's the massive control systems: each qubit needs laser beams precisely controlled by bulky modulators, and thousands of cables snaking from room temperature into refrigerators colder than deep space. A lab rack that controls 100 qubits would need an entire data center to control a million.

Updated May 16