European InteQuant project introduced to build next-gen photonic quantity hardware

Reliable photon production, propagation, and detection are one of the most critical technical obstacles in developing an application-oriented quantum internet. Notwithstanding developments in quantum communication technology, for most practical applications, the quantic key transfer rates obtained so far are still far too small.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Technology (IOF; Jena, Germany) and the Institut....