Rueda, Alfredo and Sedlmeir, Florian and Collodo, Michele C. and Vogl, Ulrich and Stiller, Birgit and Schunk, Gerhard and Strekalov, Dmitry V. and Marquardt, Christoph and Fink, Johannes M. and Painter, Oskar and Leuchs, Gerd and Schwefel, Harald G. L. (2016) Efficient microwave to optical photon conversion: an electro-optical realization. Optica, 3 (6). pp. 597-604. ISSN 2334-2536. doi:10.1364/OPTICA.3.000597. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160722-114220042
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Abstract
Linking classical microwave electrical circuits to the optical telecommunication band is at the core of modern communication. Future quantum information networks will require coherent microwave-to-optical conversion to link electronic quantum processors and memories via low-loss optical telecommunication networks. Efficient conversion can be achieved with electro-optical modulators operating at the single microwave photon level. In the standard electro-optic modulation scheme, this is impossible because both up- and down-converted sidebands are necessarily present. Here, we demonstrate true single-sideband up- or down-conversion in a triply resonant whispering gallery mode resonator by explicitly addressing modes with asymmetric free spectral range. Compared to previous experiments, we show a 3 orders of magnitude improvement of the electro-optical conversion efficiency, reaching 0.1% photon number conversion for a 10 GHz microwave tone at 0.42 mW of optical pump power. The presented scheme is fully compatible with existing superconducting 3D circuit quantum electrodynamics technology and can be used for nonclassical state conversion and communication. Our conversion bandwidth is larger than 1 MHz and is not fundamentally limited.
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| Additional Information: | © 2016 Optical Society of America. Received 17 February 2016; revised 5 May 2016; accepted 13 May 2016 (Doc. ID 259508); published 6 June 2016. Funding. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Acknowledgment. We would like to acknowledge our stimulating discussions with Konrad Lehnert and Alessandro Pitanti. | |||||||||
| Group: | Institute for Quantum Information and Matter | |||||||||
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| Issue or Number: | 6 | |||||||||
| Classification Code: | OCIS codes: (190.4223) Nonlinear wave mixing; (230.2090) Electro-optical devices; (190.7220) Upconversion | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1364/OPTICA.3.000597 | |||||||||
| Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20160722-114220042 | |||||||||
| Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160722-114220042 | |||||||||
| Official Citation: | Alfredo Rueda, Florian Sedlmeir, Michele C. Collodo, Ulrich Vogl, Birgit Stiller, Gerhard Schunk, Dmitry V. Strekalov, Christoph Marquardt, Johannes M. Fink, Oskar Painter, Gerd Leuchs, and Harald G. L. Schwefel, "Efficient microwave to optical photon conversion: an electro-optical realization," Optica 3, 597-604 (2016) | |||||||||
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| ID Code: | 69165 | |||||||||
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| Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | |||||||||
| Deposited On: | 22 Jul 2016 22:31 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2021 04:10 |
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