Presto
Microwave arbitrary waveform generator and analyser
  • 10 GHz max frequency
  • 1 GHz instantaneous bandwidth
  • Direct digital synthesis, no analog IQ mixers (learn more)
  • Phase coherence across all ports
  • Multiple modes of operation included:
    • Pulse sequencer
    • Multifrequency lockin
    • FFT spectral analysis
  • See data sheet
    Applications include:
  • Gate-based quantum computing (see tutorial)
  • Continuous variable quantum computing
  • Super-conducting qubits, NV centers, photonics, trapped ions and atoms
  • Quantum key distribution
  • Sensor arrays
  • Intermodulation spectroscopy
  • Scanning probe microscopy
  • Physics research
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  • I've been using Presto extensively and we've been making quite a lot of progress thanks to it. In particular, we use it for time domain measurements and I couldn't be happier with the support I got from IMP.

    — Mathieu Fechant, Postdoc, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  • The user support is amazing. At one point, we realized that our use cases required extreme precision in the timing of pulses arriving to the quantum chip. We reached out to IMP support, within an hour we concluded on a solution, within a day they updated their API allowing us to time pulses down to 100 ps and within a week we had integrated the functionality, calibrated our system and produced (to our knowledge) the highest quality cubic phase state ever produced on any quantum platform.

    — Axel Eriksson, Researcher, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Unlimited scaling

8 channels

Presto-8
Presto-8
  • 8 RF ADC and 8 RF DAC
  • 16 DC bias outputs, 2 CW outputs (up to 15 GHz), 4 trigger inputs, 4 trigger outputs

Use cases:

  • Single and few qubit measurements
  • Quantum sensors
  • Nonlinear characterization with intermodulation spectroscopy

16 channels

Presto-16
Presto-16
  • 16 RF ADC and 16 RF DAC
  • 16 DC bias outputs, 2 CW outputs (up to 15 GHz), 4 trigger inputs, 4 trigger outputs

Use cases:

  • Control a small QPU
  • Multiple experiments connected in shared lab

Beyond

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  • Synchronize multiple Presto with the help of Metronomo
  • Timing, phase and frequency stability across all ports and units

Use cases:

  • Control large scale QPU

Pulse sequencer

Generate complex arbitrary waveforms by sequencing simple building blocks in pulse mode. Record your response coherently by scheduling signal acquisition, analysis and feedback in the same sequence. Finally, complete the experiment by on-board parameter sweeping and interleaved averaging with zero over-head.

  • 2 ns sequence resolution
  • >10k events in one sequence
  • 200 ns feedback latency
  • Raw data acquisition or template matching
  • Phase coherence across all input and output ports in the entire sequence
  • On-board averaging and multi-dimensional parameter stepper
  • Applications: gate based quantum computing, qubit control, readout and reset etc.
  • Learn how it works

Multifrequency continuous wave

Generate multifrequency continuous wave signals and demodulate IQ response from your Device Under Test with lockin mode.

  • 192 generators and demodulators
  • Individually controlled amplitude, frequency and phase
  • Phase coherence across all input and output ports
  • Gap-less demodulation
  • Programmable real-time feedback
  • Applications: frequency sweeping, two-tone spectroscopy, intermodulation spectroscopy, CV quantum computing, scanning probe microscopy
  • Learn how it works

Massively parallel FFT

Measure massively parallel fast Fourier transform (FFT), power spectral density (PSD) or cross power spectral density (CPSD) with spectral mode.

  • Measure thousands of frequencies with one instrument!
  • Gap-less measurements of FFT, PSD or CPSD
  • Averaged or individual data points
  • Phase coherence across all input and output ports
  • Arbitrary waveform generation
  • Applications: quantum sensing, quantum thermodynamics...
  • Learn how it works

You are in control

  • Simple yet powerful Python API
  • Large selection of tutorials and examples
  • Compatible with industry standard frameworks for easy integration

Select publications using Presto

Measurement and control of a superconducting quantum processor with a fully integrated radio-frequency system on a chip
Mats O. Tholén, Riccardo Borgani, Giuseppe Ruggero Di Carlo, Andreas Bengtsson, Christian Križan, Marina Kudra, Giovanna Tancredi, Jonas Bylander, Per Delsing, Simone Gasparinetti, and David B. Haviland
Review of Scientific Instruments 93, 104711 (2022)
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Multipartite Entanglement in a Microwave Frequency Comb
Shan W. Jolin, Gustav Andersson, J. C. Rivera Hernández, Ingrid Strandberg, Fernando Quijandría, José Aumentado, Riccardo Borgani, Mats O. Tholén, and David B. Haviland
Physical Review Letters 130, 120601 (2023)
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Robust Preparation of Wigner-Negative States with Optimized SNAP-Displacement Sequences
Marina Kudra, Mikael Kervinen, Ingrid Strandberg, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Marco Scigliuzzo, Amr Osman, Daniel Pérez Lozano, Mats O. Tholén, Riccardo Borgani, David B. Haviland, Giulia Ferrini, Jonas Bylander, Anton Frisk Kockum, Fernando Quijandría, Per Delsing, and Simone Gasparinetti
PRX Quantum 3, 030301 (2022)
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