Klea Dhmitri (Hamamatsu): Photonics as the hidden backbone of quantum hardware scaling

Klea Dhmitri of Hamamatsu joins Yuval to discuss the company’s role as a photonic component provider for trapped-ion and neutral-atom quantum computers.

So I’m Klea Dhmitri and I work for Hamamatsu Corporation, which is the North American subsidiary of Hamamatsu Photonics.

And what I do here is I lead our quantum computing and quantum communication project here in North America.

Klea: That’s a great, great question.

So we’ve been making PMTs for 70 years and it was actually probably the first product Hamamatsu Photonics made, and so it’s kind of our bread and butter.