Tyndall photonics packaging & systems integration group joins Europe’s quantum flagship initiative
The Photonics Packaging & Systems Integration Group at Tyndall National Institute has joined a European flagship project to support the development of advanced packaging solutions.
The Quantum Secure Networks Partnership (QSNP) brings together more than 40 partners from all over Europe, ranging from academia, foundries and RTOs, SMEs and spin-offs to network and cryptography integrators and telecom operators. In the time span of 3.5 years and with a budget of €25 million.
The Initiative was launched in 2018 by the European Commission as one of the largest and most ambitious research initiatives of the region within quantum technologies. With a budget of at least €1 billion and a duration of 10 years, the project has gathered leading research institutions, academics, industry, enterprises, and policymakers, in a collaborative initiative to carry out research and development in quantum technologies and transfer this research from the lab to the market.
Firstly, the QSNP project will develop advanced quantum technology for quantum secure communication networks against the ever-increasing power of computers and the sophistication of algorithms, even for quantum computers. That is, they will work on the development and deployment of next-generation protocols based on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) cryptography techniques, that can help reduce the security assumptions needed for the networks, extend the range of secure communication, and search for new functionalities that could beyond these techniques.
Secondly, the project will integrate this quantum cryptography technology not only at the component, system and network levels, but also into existing classical telecommunication systems and post-quantum protocols, assuring an additional layer of ultra-secure communications in this hybrid classical-quantum network.
Finally, the project will apply all the know-how and capabilities acquired, as well as the technology developed, into different use cases, mainly into delivering critical European technology for government infrastructures such as the European Quantum Communications Infrastructure (EuroQCI).
Valerio Pruneri from The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), said: “With QSNP, we are now moving out into the terrain where we will be able to develop further and most of all test the research development carried out in the first phase of the flagship. With the more than 40 entities within this grand consortium, we expect to achieve unprecedented performances and new designs for application-specific cryptography, covering the full chain from quantum fundamental to product development.”
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