Bypassing the filtering challenges in microwave-optical quantum transduction through optomechanical four-wave mixing
Microwave-optical quantum transduction is a key enabling technology in quantum networking, but has been plagued by a formidable technical challenge. As most microwave-optical-transduction techniques rely on three-wave mixing processes, the processes consume photons from a driving telecom-band (pump)...
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| author | James Schneeloch Erin Sheridan A. Matthew Smith Christopher C. Tison Daniel L. Campbell Matthew D. LaHaye Michael L. Fanto Paul M. Alsing |
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| description | Microwave-optical quantum transduction is a key enabling technology in quantum networking, but has been plagued by a formidable technical challenge. As most microwave-optical-transduction techniques rely on three-wave mixing processes, the processes consume photons from a driving telecom-band (pump) laser to convert input microwave photons into telecom-band photons detuned from the laser by this microwave frequency. However, cleanly separating out single photons detuned only a few GHz away from a classically bright laser in the same spatial mode requires frequency filters of unprecedented extinction over a very narrow transition band, straining the capabilities of today's technology. Instead of confronting this challenge directly, we show how one may achieve the same transduction objective with comparable efficiency using a four-wave mixing process in which pairs of pump photons are consumed to produce transduced optical photons widely separated in frequency from the pump. We develop this process by considering higher-order analogues of photoelasticity and electrostriction than those used in conventional optomechanics, and examine how the efficiency of this process can be made to exceed conventional optomechanical couplings. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c473fcde3df24a53945de44afd8708582025-08-20T03:30:36ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPhysical Review Research2643-15642025-07-017303301310.1103/f35f-4128Bypassing the filtering challenges in microwave-optical quantum transduction through optomechanical four-wave mixingJames SchneelochErin SheridanA. Matthew SmithChristopher C. TisonDaniel L. CampbellMatthew D. LaHayeMichael L. FantoPaul M. AlsingMicrowave-optical quantum transduction is a key enabling technology in quantum networking, but has been plagued by a formidable technical challenge. As most microwave-optical-transduction techniques rely on three-wave mixing processes, the processes consume photons from a driving telecom-band (pump) laser to convert input microwave photons into telecom-band photons detuned from the laser by this microwave frequency. However, cleanly separating out single photons detuned only a few GHz away from a classically bright laser in the same spatial mode requires frequency filters of unprecedented extinction over a very narrow transition band, straining the capabilities of today's technology. Instead of confronting this challenge directly, we show how one may achieve the same transduction objective with comparable efficiency using a four-wave mixing process in which pairs of pump photons are consumed to produce transduced optical photons widely separated in frequency from the pump. We develop this process by considering higher-order analogues of photoelasticity and electrostriction than those used in conventional optomechanics, and examine how the efficiency of this process can be made to exceed conventional optomechanical couplings.http://doi.org/10.1103/f35f-4128 |
| spellingShingle | James Schneeloch Erin Sheridan A. Matthew Smith Christopher C. Tison Daniel L. Campbell Matthew D. LaHaye Michael L. Fanto Paul M. Alsing Bypassing the filtering challenges in microwave-optical quantum transduction through optomechanical four-wave mixing Physical Review Research |
| title | Bypassing the filtering challenges in microwave-optical quantum transduction through optomechanical four-wave mixing |
| title_full | Bypassing the filtering challenges in microwave-optical quantum transduction through optomechanical four-wave mixing |
| title_fullStr | Bypassing the filtering challenges in microwave-optical quantum transduction through optomechanical four-wave mixing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bypassing the filtering challenges in microwave-optical quantum transduction through optomechanical four-wave mixing |
| title_short | Bypassing the filtering challenges in microwave-optical quantum transduction through optomechanical four-wave mixing |
| title_sort | bypassing the filtering challenges in microwave optical quantum transduction through optomechanical four wave mixing |
| url | http://doi.org/10.1103/f35f-4128 |
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