Efficient single sideband microwave to optical conversion using an electro-optical whispering gallery mode resonator
| Title: | Efficient single sideband microwave to optical conversion using an electro-optical whispering gallery mode resonator |
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| Authors: | Rueda, Alfredo, Sedlmeir, Florian, Collodo, Michele C., Vogl, Ulrich, Stiller, Birgit, Schunk, Gerhard, Strekalov, Dmitry V., Marquardt, Christoph, Fink, Johannes M., Painter, Oskar, Leuchs, Gerd, Schwefel, Harald G. L. |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Collection: | Physics (Other) Quantum Physics |
| Subject Terms: | Quantum Physics, Physics - Optics |
| More Details: | 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 downconverted, sidebands are necessarily present. Here we demonstrate true single sideband up- or downconversion in a triply resonant whispering gallery mode resonator by explicitly addressing modes with asymmetric free spectral range. Compared to previous experiments, we show a three orders of magnitude improvement of the electro-optical conversion efficiency reaching 0.1% photon number conversion for a 10GHz microwave tone at 0.42mW of optical pump power. The presented scheme is fully compatible with existing superconducting 3D circuit quantum electrodynamics technology and can be used for non-classical state conversion and communication. Our conversion bandwidth is larger than 1MHz and not fundamentally limited. Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures; comments welcome! |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1364/OPTICA.3.000597 |
| Access URL: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.07261 |
| Accession Number: | edsarx.1601.07261 |
| Database: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1364/OPTICA.3.000597 |
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