AQLAS, a consortium spearheaded by Italy’s Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM), has secured €2.5 million from the European Innovation Council’s (EIC) Transition programme to develop quantum computing innovation.
The funding shall be channelled into creating a cutting-edge, high-precision laser module designed particularly for atomic quantum computer systems—a vital ingredient for the evolving quantum expertise market.
Quantum computing, a quickly increasing discipline, depends closely on frequency-stabilised lasers to carry out duties comparable to cooling, manipulating, and detecting quantum bits. Present laser methods are predominantly tailor-made for laboratory use, presenting challenges in scalability and affordability for business purposes.
AQLAS seeks to bridge this hole by delivering a extra economical, compact, and environment friendly resolution. The proposed laser module is anticipated to be 4–10 occasions smaller and a couple of–5 occasions cheaper than current high-performance methods, providing a leap in quantum computing accessibility and business viability.
Dr Carlo Sias, Principal Investigator at AQLAS, expressed the imaginative and prescient driving the venture: “Our AQLAS resolution will facilitate entry to high-quality {hardware} with decrease pricing
and simpler use, thus encouraging the manufacturing of business quantum computer systems
for the European quantum computing business.”
The INRiM is a public scientific analysis physique finishing up and selling analysis in metrology, and creating probably the most superior measurement requirements and strategies and associated applied sciences. To this finish, as a signatory to worldwide agreements on metrology, upon delegation of the competent establishments, and equally to the metrological institutes of different nations, INRiM creates and maintains the nationwide requirements for items of measurement.
The consortium includes notable gamers from throughout Europe, together with Acceler8 (Malta), SILENTSYS (France), and IDIL Fibres Optiques (France). These companions convey experience in strategic R&D, ultra-low noise system growth, and superior optical fibre and laser applied sciences, respectively.
By leveraging this collaborative experience, AQLAS goals to place Europe as a world chief in quantum computing—a discipline anticipated to outline the subsequent period of technological development.
By addressing the present limitations of quantum laser expertise, AQLAS is contributing to the way forward for quantum computing and fostering the institution of a sturdy European quantum business.