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[ThF1-5]Comparative Analysis of Random Unitary Matrix Generators Using Programmable Photonic Circuits

○Chun Ren, Ryota Tanomura, Takuo Tanemura (The Univ. of Tokyo)

Keywords:

Silicon photonic and nanophotonic devices for computing applications,Highly parallelized scalable photonic computing architectures and devices,Photonic quantum computing

Photonic integrated random unitary matrix generators based on multiport directional couplers are analyzed. Up to 512×512 matrix with complete Haar randomness is obtained by only three phase shifting layers, significantly reducing number of phase shifters.