%0 Journal Article
%T Specification of photonic circuits using Quantum Hardware Description Language
%A Nikolas Tezak
%A Armand Niederberger
%A Dmitri S. Pavlichin
%A Gopal Sarma
%A Hideo Mabuchi
%J Physics
%D 2011
%I arXiv
%R 10.1098/rsta.2011.0526
%X 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 (VHDL), we demonstrate a computer-aided schematic capture workflow for modeling 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.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3081v1