OFC 2023 Quantum Networks, AI and Data Centers
OFC is the premier global event for optical communications and networking.
From March 5-9, 2023, OFC attracted over 11,500 attendees and 515 exhibiting companies, and served as a platform for several start-ups to make their debut. The International Photonics Council (IPEC) successfully organized the Global Photonics Technology Symposium, the theme of which was "Outlook for Photonics Technology and Industry Standards in the Cloud Era," to discuss the evolution of data center DCN to super 400G and to share the IPEC Advanced Technology Working Group's work on co-packaged optical The IPEC Advanced Technology Working Group will share the latest research progress in the area of co-packaged optical OIO (Optics Input &Output).
OFC2023 will include three special sessions, three workshops, 11 mini-forums, and ten panel discussions covering topics such as quantum networks, machine learning and other network analysis techniques, 5G innovations, and other hot topics. OFC participants from around the world will also bring numerous new developments in optical networking and data center optics.
Of the event, Bloomberg said, "The optics industry is currently going through an exciting time. At OFC 2023, many companies continue to introduce new products and technologies, such as 1.2T and 1.6T coherent optics and co-packaged optics (CPO). But it's really refreshing to hear that new products introduced at OFC two or three years ago are already shipping and realizing revenue in volume."
Will optics play a role in extending the future of quantum computing architectures?
Sharing organizations: CNRS, France; Microsoft Research Ltd, UK; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA; Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
The trend towards scaling quantum computing architectures is interconnected quantum processing units. For several platforms requiring increasingly large dilution chillers, communication between modular quantum chips based on electrical/RF connections is a limitation due to the limited thermal load capacity that the chillers can support. Other platforms that are expected to operate at higher temperatures will eventually face similar challenges. Optical interconnects are a potential answer to this scaling challenge to enable multi-chip communication. Such a topology would require converting some of the platform's quantum bits to optical wavelengths and, more generally, transmitting them over a networked quantum computing architecture, the conceptual "quantum data center".
In addition, the control of quantum computers requires a hybrid computing framework with both classical and quantum resources. In the first session, this workshop will encompass a variety of quantum bit technologies and industry strategies for classical control frameworks to scale quantum computing. The second session will cover the technologies and challenges facing quantum interconnects.
Chip-based Relayless Quantum Networks without Trust
Speaker: Feihu Xu, University of Science and Technology of China
Reports on the team's recent work related to building chip-based quantum networks using measurement device-independent protocols. Specifically, recent experiments on silicon-chip-based QKD, high-rate QKD, dual-field QKD, and all-optical quantum repeaters are included.
Hybrid classical-quantum data centers using optical networks
Guest speaker: Richard Murray, ORCA Computing
Classical and quantum networks are critical to the short-term utility and long-term scalability of quantum computers. The team presents work on embedding and tightly integrating quanta in a classical data center for hybrid quantum-classical algorithms.
On-chip engineering entanglement for optical quantum computing
Guest speaker: Jianwei Wang, Peking University
On-chip generation, control and detection of quantum states of light using large-scale silicon photonic circuits opens the way for the realization of advanced quantum technologies. Mr. Jianwei Wang presented the latest advances in silicon photonic quantum devices and circuits for quantum computing.
Visible Light Photonics for SBS and Quantum Sensing
Guest speaker: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Integrated photonics at visible wavelengths offers exciting possibilities for miniaturization and scalability of quantum sensors. Here, the MIT team discusses the techniques and challenges of bringing visible wavelengths to a chip platform.
Open quantum channel stabilization for two-field quantum key distribution
Speaker: Beijing Institute of Quantum Information Science
The team developed a new technique to stabilize an open channel for two-field quantum key distribution without using frequency propagation. A versatile setup was demonstrated at a distance of 615.6 km, achieving a repeater-like behavior.
About OFC 2023
The Optical Fiber Communication Conference &Exposition 2023, co-sponsored by the Optical Society of America (formerly OSA), the Communications Society of America, and the Laser and Electro-Optical Society of America (IEEE/LEOS), takes place March 5-9 in San Diego.
OFC is the most important event in the global optoelectronic optical communications exhibition, founded in 1975, and is now recognized as the highest specification, largest, oldest, most professional and most influential international event in the global optical communications field.
OFC 2024 will continue to be held at the San Diego Convention Center from March 24-28, 2024.
