Efficient microwave to optical photon conversion: an electro-optical realization

A Rueda, F Sedlmeir, MC Collodo, U Vogl, B Stiller… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
… Here, we demonstrate true single-sideband up- or down-conversion in a triply resonant …
-optical conversion efficiency, reaching 0.1% photon number conversion for a 10 GHz microwave

Coherent conversion between microwave and optical photons—an overview of physical implementations

NJ Lambert, A Rueda, F Sedlmeir… - Advanced Quantum …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… up-conversion of thermal microwave photons, but places … photon conversion efficiency was
measured to be η = 10 − 5 with no resonant enhancement for either the optical or microwave

Microwave photonic downconverter with high conversion efficiency

EHW Chan, RA Minasian - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
microwave frequency conversion. Various approaches have been reported to try to improve
the conversion efficiency … In this paper we present a microwave photonic mixer structure that …

High-efficiency coherent microwave-to-optics conversion via off-resonant scattering

HT Tu, KY Liao, ZX Zhang, XH Liu, SY Zheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
converted power P L drops at higher microwave intensities (Ω M ≫ Ω A ). The photon conversion
efficiency … are the angular frequencies of optical and microwave photons, respectively), …

Microwave-optical quantum frequency conversion

X Han, W Fu, CL Zou, L Jiang, HX Tang - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
… Without a microwave resonator, the photon conversion efficiency should no longer be
described by Eq. (6). Instead, the electromechanical transduction can be represented by a single …

Optically heralded microwave photon addition

W Jiang, FM Mayor, S Malik, R Van Laer, TP McKenna… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
conversion efficiency, input-referred added noise of ~100, and pulsed microwave photon
thermal noise of less than two microwave photons. Improvements of the system efficiencies …

Microwave photonic frequency conversion with high conversion efficiency and elimination of dispersion-induced power fading

W Zhang, A Wen, Y Gao, X Li… - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… high conversion efficiency, but it suffers from power fading after transmitting over dispersive
fiber. In this paper, we present a novel microwave photonic … , the conversion efficiency of this …

Proposal for a microwave photon to optical photon converter based on traveling magnons in thin magnetic films

M Kostylev, AA Stashkevich - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
… total efficiency of microwave magnon to photon conversion … the efficiency of conversion of
input microwave photons into … one is the efficiency of magnon-to-optical photon conversion. …

Bidirectional and efficient conversion between microwave and optical light

RW Andrews, RW Peterson, TP Purdy, K Cicak… - Nature physics, 2014 - nature.com
… technology can convert low-frequency microwave signals … , coherent and efficient link between
the microwave and optical … signals between microwave and optical light with conversion

Microwave photonic downconversion with improved conversion efficiency and SFDR

F Paloi, S Haxha, TN Mirza, MS Alom - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… approach of microwave frequency downconversion with improved conversion efficiency and
… optical carrier suppression, resulting in high conversion efficiency. We show that when the …