Much of the information that will be treated in the future will benefit from quantum optics. So we are trying to make a new technology which is secure, is for transferring secure information to do processing of certain things much faster. For example, when you need to go fast through database, like you do with Google, then quantum optics can help you.

You can't go buy a quantum computer yet. You can only think of doing one in the lab. Today in the field of quantum technologies, it's all about the single photon.

So in what we are doing, we are trying to use a standard technology, like the technology that has already been developed in telecommunications systems, so everything is already there off the shelf, and create complex data. The complex data actually will allows us to pack more information in a smaller number of photons, so the quantum particle of light, so we don't have the problem now sort of limit a bit the application of photonics for quantum technology, which is the efficient generation of photons.

The holy grail is the quantum computer, but these are the building blocks to make that vision happen.

By developing our ideas, we can do something useful also for the industry, for the society, for the other people.

If we can get really super fast computers, I mean, this is ordersof magnitude more thanwhat we have today, that would be an amazing breakthrough.