Microwave-optical quantum frequency conversion

X Han, W Fu, CL Zou, L Jiang, HX Tang - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Photons at microwave and optical frequencies are principal carriers for quantum information.
While microwave photons can be effectively controlled at the local circuit level, optical …

Aluminum nitride photonic integrated circuits: from piezo-optomechanics to nonlinear optics

X Liu, AW Bruch, HX Tang - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum-enabled operation of a microwave-optical interface

R Sahu, W Hease, A Rueda, G Arnold, L Qiu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Solid-state microwave systems offer strong interactions for fast quantum logic and sensing
but photons at telecom wavelength are the ideal choice for high-density low-loss quantum …

Optomechanical ground-state cooling in a continuous and efficient electro-optic transducer

BM Brubaker, JM Kindem, MD Urmey, S Mittal… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
The demonstration of a quantum link between microwave and optical frequencies would be
an important step toward the realization of a quantum network of superconducting …

Optically heralded entanglement of superconducting systems in quantum networks

S Krastanov, H Raniwala, J Holzgrafe, K Jacobs… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Networking superconducting quantum computers is a longstanding challenge in quantum
science. The typical approach has been to cascade transducers: converting to optical …

Non-classical microwave–optical photon pair generation with a chip-scale transducer

S Meesala, S Wood, D Lake, P Chiappina, C Zhong… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Modern computing and communication technologies such as supercomputers and the
Internet are based on optically connected networks of microwave-frequency information …

[HTML][HTML] Bidirectional interconversion of microwave and light with thin-film lithium niobate

Y Xu, AA Sayem, L Fan, CL Zou, S Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Superconducting cavity electro-optics presents a promising route to coherently convert
microwave and optical photons and distribute quantum entanglement between …

[HTML][HTML] Microwave-to-optical transduction with erbium ions coupled to planar photonic and superconducting resonators

J Rochman, T Xie, JG Bartholomew… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Optical quantum networks can connect distant quantum processors to enable secure
quantum communication and distributed quantum computing. Superconducting qubits are a …

Architectures for multinode superconducting quantum computers

J Ang, G Carini, Y Chen, I Chuang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Many proposals to scale quantum technology rely on modular or distributed designs where
individual quantum processors, called nodes, are linked together to form one large …

Electrical control of surface acoustic waves

L Shao, D Zhu, M Colangelo, D Lee, N Sinclair… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Acoustic waves at microwave frequencies are widely used in wireless communication and
are potential information carriers in quantum applications. However, most acoustic devices …