{"id":177902,"date":"2025-09-29T16:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177902\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:05:08","slug":"bell-labs-now-at-nokia-zeroes-in-on-photonic-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177902\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell Labs, now at Nokia, zeroes in on photonic quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The photonic quantum work that Nokia Bell Labs is doing is not just marketing hype, says Luca De Matteis<\/a>, an analyst at Appledore Research. \u201cNot many players have the understanding and expertise that Nokia has in optical networks,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Growing quantum competition<\/p>\n

Bell Labs isn\u2019t the only organization to recognize the power of photonic computing. In April, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency selected a photonic quantum computing company<\/a>, Xanadu, as one of 15 companies for its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative.<\/p>\n

Other companies working on photonic computing include PsiQuantum<\/a>, ORCA<\/a>, Quandela<\/a>, QuiX Quantum<\/a>, Photonic<\/a>, Quantum Computing<\/a>, AEGIQ<\/a>, Duality Quantum Photonics<\/a>, Ephos<\/a>, g2-Zero<\/a>, Quantum Source<\/a>, QC82<\/a>, and QBoson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In September, PsiQuantum announced that it raised $1 billion in funding<\/a>. Their goal? a 1-million-qubit photonic computer by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n

Also in September, China\u2019s QBoson showed off a 1,000-qubit photonic quantum computer<\/a>, which is available now to customers via the cloud.\u00a0The previous month, the company broke ground on a factory<\/a> dedicated to the mass production of photonic quantum computers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to QBoson, its cloud-based photonic computing platform \u2013 previously limited to 550 and 100 qubits \u2013 has already processed 68 million computing problems, by over 10,000 developers and more than 900 colleges and universities. The 1,000 qubit threshold allows it to tackle practical problems such as drug molecule design, the company says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The photonic quantum work that Nokia Bell Labs is doing is not just marketing hype, says Luca De…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[64,63,257,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-177902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}