A quantum memory with telecom-wavelength conversion

AG Radnaev, YO Dudin, R Zhao, HH Jen, SD Jenkins… - Nature Physics, 2010 - nature.com
In a fibre-based quantum information network, telecom-wavelength transmission between
quantum memory elements is required to minimize absorption. Owing to the paucity of …

Entanglement of light-shift compensated atomic spin waves with telecom light

YO Dudin, AG Radnaev, R Zhao, JZ Blumoff… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
Entanglement of a 795 nm light polarization qubit and an atomic Rb spin-wave qubit for a
storage time of 0.1 s is observed by measuring the violation of Bell's inequality (S …

Spatially structured transparency and transfer of optical vortices via four-wave mixing in a quantum-dot nanostructure

Rahmatullah, M Abbas, Ziauddin, S Qamar - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We propose a scheme to generate structured light using a medium consisting of
semiconductor quantum dots via four-wave mixing (FWM). We consider a four-level quantum …

Microwave-to-optical conversion via four-wave mixing in a cold ytterbium ensemble

JP Covey, A Sipahigil, M Saffman - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
Interfacing superconducting qubits with optical photons require noise-free microwave-to-
optical transducers, a technology currently not realized at the single-photon level. We …

Cavity-free scheme for nondestructive detection of a single optical photon

K Xia, M Johnsson, PL Knight, J Twamley - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Detecting a single photon without absorbing it is a long-standing challenge in quantum
optics. All experiments demonstrating the nondestructive detection of a photon make use of …

Direct measurement of excited-state dipole matrix elements using electromagnetically induced transparency in the hyperfine Paschen-Back regime

DJ Whiting, J Keaveney, CS Adams, IG Hughes - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
Applying large magnetic fields to gain access to the hyperfine Paschen-Back regime can
isolate three-level systems in a hot alkali metal vapors, thereby simplifying usually complex …

Correlated photon pairs generated from a warm atomic ensemble

RT Willis, FE Becerra, LA Orozco, SL Rolston - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2010 - APS
We present measurements of the cross-correlation function of photon pairs at 780 and 1367
nm, generated in a hot rubidium vapor cell. The temporal character of the biphoton is …

Photon statistics and polarization correlations at telecommunications wavelengths from a warm atomic ensemble

RT Willis, FE Becerra, LA Orozco, SL Rolston - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We present measurements of the polarization correlation and photon statistics of photon
pairs that emerge from a laser-pumped warm rubidium vapor cell. The photon pairs occur at …

Four-wave mixing in a non-degenerate four-level diamond configuration in the hyperfine Paschen–Back regime

DJ Whiting, RS Mathew, J Keaveney… - Journal of Modern …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
We present an experimental study of seeded four-wave mixing (4WM) using a diamond
excitation scheme (with states from the 5 S 1/2, 5 P 1/2, 5 P 3/2 and 5 D 3/2 terms) in a …

Linear up-conversion of orbital angular momentum

DS Ding, ZY Zhou, BS Shi, XB Zou, GC Guo - Optics Letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrated that infrared light imprinted with orbital angular momentum
(OAM) was linearly converted into visible light using four-wave mixing (FWM) via a ladder …