Tucson Testbed
A multi-node installation designed to validate many quantum-network protocols, architectures, repeaters, and devices
The Tucson based quantum network system testbed is hosted at the University of Arizona and provides a place to test silicon photonic chips with various integrated functionalities, to demonstrate entanglement distribution with ever-increasing levels of performance, and to test out resource allocation and management protocols.
The testbed leverages an existing entangled photon distribution network connected by fiber and free-space optics deployed between five buildings on campus: Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Physics (PAS), Optical Sciences Center (OSC), and Biology (BIO5). With the repeaters developed in the Boston testbed, the Tucson network is building the world’s first quantum network testbed for multi-user 10+M qubits/sec fault-tolerant entanglement distribution.
Chaohan Cui
Testbed Manager
The University of Arizona
