A Cryogenic Hybrid Photonic/CMOS Controller Architecture for Scalable Superconducting Qubit Control

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10114v2
• Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:26:20 GMT
• Title: A Cryogenic Hybrid Photonic/CMOS Controller Architecture for Scalable Superconducting Qubit Control
• Abstract summary: Scaling superconducting quantum computers toward thousands of qubits remains a difficult control hardware problem.<n>This work develops a 4 K hybrid photonic/CMOS control architecture in which optical fibers distribute shared shaped pulse templates.<n>Cryo-CMOS circuits provide transmission control, amplitude programming, sample-and-hold envelope shaping, LO-tone and phase selection, and microwave upconversion.
• Score: 0.9704960686964833
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Scaling superconducting quantum computers toward thousands of qubits remains a difficult control hardware problem. It requires hardware that reduces room-temperature to cryogenic wiring and cryogenic power while preserving in-fridge programmability for microwave pulse generation. This work develops a 4 K hybrid photonic/CMOS control architecture in which optical fibers distribute shared shaped pulse templates, while local cryogenic CMOS (Cryo-CMOS) circuits provide transmission control, amplitude programming, sample-and-hold envelope shaping, LO-tone and phase selection, and microwave upconversion, enabling both single-qubit and two-qubit gate generation within the same control path. Compared with fully Cryo-CMOS controllers, this architecture reduces per-channel active dissipation by moving high-speed sampled RF/IF waveform synthesis and waveform-memory access out of each cryogenic channel. Compared with purely photonic-link qubit-control approaches, it adds local 4 K programmability for pulse selection, amplitude scaling, timing updates, and LO-phase control, while remaining compatible with room-temperature real-time feedback and quantum error correction (QEC) workflows. We present architecture-level first-order models for 4 K power dissipation, waveform-memory scaling, and controller-induced fidelity limits, and cross-check the dominant fidelity terms using a three-level transmon simulation. The analysis shows that shared optical pulse template distribution with local 4 K envelope programming is a feasible path toward scalable superconducting qubit control.

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