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Software & Engineering

Space Dynamics Laboratory

  • Designed, implemented, tested, and validated VHDL code for FPGA control of space instrumentation

Quantum Key Distribution

  • Executed optical experiment for measuring correlation strength of entangled photons

  • Programmed FPGAs in Verilog and C to achieve high data transmission rates for use in Quantum Key Distribution experiments

Publication: (https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06417)

Bing Qi, Hyrum Gunther, Philip G. Evans, Brian P. Williams, Ryan M. Camacho, Nicholas A. Peters, “Experimental Passive-State Preparation for Continuous-Variable Quantum Communications,” Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 054065 – Published 26 May 2020.

Oak Ridge National Lab

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Simphony: Photonic Circuit Simulation Solution

BYU Quantum Optics Laboratory

  • Designed, fabricated, and tested photonic integrated circuits for use in quantum experiments

  • Developed open-source Python package for designing and simulating photonic circuits, providing fully-customizable simulations at least 10x faster than commercially available software

Github: (https://github.com/BYUCamachoLab/simphony)

Publication: (https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05146)

S. Ploeg, H. Gunther, R. Camacho, "Simphony: An open-source photonic integrated circuit simulation framework," Computing in Science & Engineering, doi: 10.1109/MCSE.2020.3012099. Published 27 July 2020.

GPU Acceleration of DSP

USU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Implemented software defined radio algorithms to run in realtime on GPUs using CUDA (C language extension)

Github: (https://github.com/rumbonium/CUDA-DSP)

Publication: (https://pubs.gnuradio.org/index.php/grcon/article/view/39/27)

J. Gunther, H. Gunther, T. Moon, “GPU Acceleration of DSP for Communication Receivers,” Proceedings of GNU Radio Conference 2017, San Diego, CA, Sept. 11-15, 2017.

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