Quantum-enabled operation of a microwave-optical interface
Sahu R, Hease WJ, Rueda Sanchez AR, Arnold GM, Qiu L, Fink JM. 2022. Quantum-enabled operation of a microwave-optical interface. Nature Communications. 13, 1276.
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Solid-state microwave systems offer strong interactions for fast quantum logic and sensing but photons at telecom wavelength are the ideal choice for high-density low-loss quantum interconnects. A general-purpose interface that can make use of single photon effects requires < 1 input noise quanta, which has remained elusive due to either low efficiency or pump induced heating. Here we demonstrate coherent electro-optic modulation on nanosecond-timescales with only 0.16+0.02−0.01 microwave input noise photons with a total bidirectional transduction efficiency of 8.7% (or up to 15% with 0.41+0.02−0.02), as required for near-term heralded quantum network protocols. The use of short and high-power optical pump pulses also enables near-unity cooperativity of the electro-optic interaction leading to an internal pure conversion efficiency of up to 99.5%. Together with the low mode occupancy this provides evidence for electro-optic laser cooling and vacuum amplification as predicted a decade ago.
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2022-03-11
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The authors thank S. Wald and F. Diorico for their help with optical filtering, O. Hosten
and M. Aspelmeyer for equipment, H.G.L. Schwefel for materials and discussions, L.
Drmic and P. Zielinski for software support, and the MIBA workshop at IST Austria for
machining the microwave cavity. This work was supported by the European Research
Council under grant agreement no. 758053 (ERC StG QUNNECT) and the European
Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no.
899354 (FETopen SuperQuLAN). W.H. is the recipient of an ISTplus postdoctoral fellowship
with funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 754411. G.A. is the
recipient of a DOC fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at IST Austria. J.M.F.
acknowledges support from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through BeyondC (F7105)
and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programs under grant
agreement no. 862644 (FETopen QUARTET).
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Sahu R, Hease WJ, Rueda Sanchez AR, Arnold GM, Qiu L, Fink JM. Quantum-enabled operation of a microwave-optical interface. Nature Communications. 2022;13. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28924-2
Sahu, R., Hease, W. J., Rueda Sanchez, A. R., Arnold, G. M., Qiu, L., & Fink, J. M. (2022). Quantum-enabled operation of a microwave-optical interface. Nature Communications. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28924-2
Sahu, Rishabh, William J Hease, Alfredo R Rueda Sanchez, Georg M Arnold, Liu Qiu, and Johannes M Fink. “Quantum-Enabled Operation of a Microwave-Optical Interface.” Nature Communications. Springer Nature, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28924-2.
R. Sahu, W. J. Hease, A. R. Rueda Sanchez, G. M. Arnold, L. Qiu, and J. M. Fink, “Quantum-enabled operation of a microwave-optical interface,” Nature Communications, vol. 13. Springer Nature, 2022.
Sahu R, Hease WJ, Rueda Sanchez AR, Arnold GM, Qiu L, Fink JM. 2022. Quantum-enabled operation of a microwave-optical interface. Nature Communications. 13, 1276.
Sahu, Rishabh, et al. “Quantum-Enabled Operation of a Microwave-Optical Interface.” Nature Communications, vol. 13, 1276, Springer Nature, 2022, doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28924-2.
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