Specification of photonic circuits using quantum hardware description language
Nikolas Tezak, Armand Niederberger, Dmitri S. Pavlichin, Gopal Sarma, Hideo Mabuchi · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences · 2012
Following the simple observation that the interconnection of a set of quantum optical input-output devices can be specified using structural mode VHSIC hardware description language, we demonstrate a computer-aided schematic capture workflow for modelling and simulating multi-component photonic circuits. We describe an algorithm for parsing circuit descriptions to derive quantum equations of motion, illustrate our approach using simple examples based on linear and cavity-nonlinear optical components, and demonstrate a computational approach to hierarchical model reduction.