International Business Machines Corporation
Optically Multiplexed Quantum Control Interface

Abstract:

A qubit control system for a quantum computer includes an optical waveguide configured to receive and transmit therethrough a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal which has a plurality of modulated optical carriers, each optical carrier being at a different optical wavelength and carrying a digital qubit control signal; an optical demultiplexer optically coupled to the optical waveguide to receive the multiplexed optical signal to recover the plurality of modulated optical carriers; a plurality of photodetectors in communication with the optical demultiplexer; a plurality of cryogenic filters in communication with the plurality of photodetectors, each being configured to filter corresponding one of the plurality of digital qubit control signals to provide a corresponding one of a plurality of analog qubit control signals which is directed to a corresponding superconducting qubit and the photodetectors. The cryogenic filters are provided at a cryogenic temperature.