Interfacing broadband photonic qubits to on-chip cavity-protected rare-earth ensembles

Tian Zhong, Jonathan M. Kindem, Jake Rochman and Andrei Faraon ()
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Tian Zhong: T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Jonathan M. Kindem: T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Jake Rochman: T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Andrei Faraon: T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology

Nature Communications, 2017, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract Ensembles of solid-state optical emitters enable broadband quantum storage and transduction of photonic qubits, with applications in high-rate quantum networks for secure communications and interconnecting future quantum computers. To transfer quantum states using ensembles, rephasing techniques are used to mitigate fast decoherence resulting from inhomogeneous broadening, but these techniques generally limit the bandwidth, efficiency and active times of the quantum interface. Here, we use a dense ensemble of neodymium rare-earth ions strongly coupled to a nanophotonic resonator to demonstrate a significant cavity protection effect at the single-photon level—a technique to suppress ensemble decoherence due to inhomogeneous broadening. The protected Rabi oscillations between the cavity field and the atomic super-radiant state enable ultra-fast transfer of photonic frequency qubits to the ions (∼50 GHz bandwidth) followed by retrieval with 98.7% fidelity. With the prospect of coupling to other long-lived rare-earth spin states, this technique opens the possibilities for broadband, always-ready quantum memories and fast optical-to-microwave transducers.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14107

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