title: Specification of photonic circuits using quantum hardware description language.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: Nikolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tezak
authors.forename: Armand
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Niederberger
authors.forename: Dmitri S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Pavlichin
authors.forename: Gopal
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sarma
authors.forename: Hideo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mabuchi