  We consider photonic arrays made from quantum emitters in optically coupled
microcavities as a platform for entanglement generation. These offer a large
degree of tunability with the possibility of site-selective optical excitation.
Coherent pumping is considered to drive transitions between vacuum and
entangled target states both in a time-dependent manner, and in a quantum bath
engineering approach to create entanglement in the steady-state. We demonstrate
a numerical scheme that allows to generalize the determination of excitation
parameters to larger array sizes and different classes of entangled states.
This study is a step towards using coupled cavity arrays as a hardware platform
in novel quantum-photonic applications in quantum computing and quantum machine
learning.
