Software & Engineering

Space Dynamics Laboratory
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Designed, implemented, tested, and validated VHDL code for FPGA control of space instrumentation
Quantum Key Distribution
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Executed optical experiment for measuring correlation strength of entangled photons
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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


Simphony: Photonic Circuit Simulation Solution
BYU Quantum Optics Laboratory
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Designed, fabricated, and tested photonic integrated circuits for use in quantum experiments
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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
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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.
