Counting Photons On-the-Fly with the Quantum Orchestration Platform

As quantum computing technology advances, experiments are becoming more complicated and require a more sophisticated orchestration of control, measurements, signal processing, and real-time decision making. The Quantum Orchestration Platform is a new comprehensive hardware and software platform for running extremely complex experiments and algorithms on quantum hardware using an intuitive, yet highly expressive pulse-level programming language, QUA. In this talk, we illustrate the use of the Quantum Orchestration Platform in a recent experiment demonstrating a number resolved photocounter for propagating microwave mode, which utilized complex real-time flow control and ultra-low latency feedback [1].

[1] R. Dassonneville, R. Assouly, T. Peronnin, P. Rouchon and B. Huard, “Number-resolved photocounter for propagating microwave mode”, PRA 14, 044022 (2020).