About Quandela
Quandela is a French company building photonic quantum computers, which use single particles of light, called photons, as qubits, the basic units of quantum information. Photonic designs differ from superconducting or trapped-ion machines because the qubits are light travelling through optical circuits rather than trapped atoms or superconducting circuits. Quandela sells quantum computers and offers cloud access to its processors. Its founding year, headquarters and specific system deliveries could not be confirmed from the sources reachable for this review, so none are stated.
Quandela was founded in 2017 and is based in Paris, France. It is listed under Quantum Computing, Photonic Computing. Reported funding is €50M+ Series B.
Compute Technologies
- Quantum Computing
- Photonic Computing
What Quandela works on
Quantum Computing
A quantum computer is a machine that uses the rules of quantum physics to process information. Its basic unit is the qubit. A classical bit is either 0 or 1. A qubit can be in a superposition, a state that combines both, and its measured result is probabilistic.
Photonic Computing
Photonic computing uses light instead of electricity to carry or process information. Photons have no charge, so light in a waveguide does not cause the resistive heating that current in a wire does, though lasers and modulators still use power, and many wavelengths can share one waveguide. The industry has two quite different parts: moving data with light, and computing with light.
Also in France
Arago, Scintil Photonics, Alice & Bob, LightOn, C12 Quantum Electronics
