Bio:

Segolene Olivier is currently leading the quantum photonics program at CEA-Leti for applications in quantum communications and quantum computing.
She received her PhD in 2002 from the University of Paris in the field of optoelectronics and was hired at CEA-Leti in 2003 as a process and device R&D engineer. She developped her expertise in various fields such as III-V integrated photonics, microelectronic interconnects and optical data storage before she joined the silicon photonics lab in 2012. Since then, she has led several projects in collaboration with academic or industrial partners, dedicated to the development of active and passive silicon photonics components, hybrid III-V on Si lasers and integrated transmitters on silicon for WDM telecom and datacom applications. From 2016 to 2019, she was coordinating H2020 European project COSMICC on the development of Tb/s Silicon photonics transmitters for CWDM communications in datacenters. In 2018, she started exploring new emerging applications fields and launched a research activity in integrated quantum photonics.

Abstract:

Photonic qubits are a promising approach for quantum simulation and computing, providing a number of key advantages, such as insensitivity to their environment, hence no decoherence, and high connectivity. Remarkably, the use of photonic qubits has recently led to the demonstration of a quantum computing advantage. On the path towards the development of a practical large-scale quantum computing hardware, silicon photonics provides a low-cost, robust and scalable technology. This talk will review the main challenges associated with the development of silicon photonics quantum integrated components for generation, encoding, processing and detection of photonic qubits