Emerging rare-earth doped material platforms for quantum nanophotonics

T Zhong, P Goldner - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
Rare-earth dopants are arguably one of the most studied optical centers in solids, with
applications spanning from laser optoelectronics, biosensing, lighting to displays …

Stopped Light and Image Storage by Electromagnetically Induced Transparency<? format?> up to the Regime of One Minute

G Heinze, C Hubrich, T Halfmann - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
The maximal storage duration is an important benchmark for memories. In quantized media,
storage times are typically limited due to stochastic interactions with the environment. Also …

Efficient quantum memory using a weakly absorbing sample

M Sabooni, Q Li, S Kröll, L Rippe - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
A light-storage experiment with a total (storage and retrieval) efficiency η= 56% is carried out
by enclosing a sample, with a single-pass absorption of 10%, in an impedance-matched …

Simultaneous coherence enhancement of optical and microwave transitions in solid-state electronic spins

A Ortu, A Tiranov, S Welinski, F Fröwis, N Gisin… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Solid-state electronic spins are extensively studied in quantum information science, as their
large magnetic moments offer fast operations for computing and communication,–, and high …

Coherent frequency up-conversion of microwaves to the optical telecommunications band in an Er: YSO crystal

X Fernandez-Gonzalvo, YH Chen, C Yin, S Rogge… - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
The ability to convert quantum states from microwave photons to optical photons is important
for hybrid system approaches to quantum information processing. We report the up …

Spectroscopic detection and state preparation of a single praseodymium ion in a crystal

T Utikal, E Eichhammer, L Petersen, A Renn… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The narrow optical transitions and long spin coherence times of rare earth ions in crystals
make them desirable for a number of applications ranging from solid-state spectroscopy and …

Rare earth-doped crystals for quantum information processing

P Goldner, A Ferrier, O Guillot-Noël - … on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare …, 2015 - Elsevier
Graphical Abstract Download: Download full-size image Quantum information processing
(QIP) uses superposition states of photons or atoms to process, store, and transmit data in …

On-demand multimode optical storage in a laser-written on-chip waveguide

MX Su, TX Zhu, C Liu, ZQ Zhou, CF Li, GC Guo - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Quantum memory is a fundamental building block for large-scale quantum networks. On-
demand optical storage with a large bandwidth, a high multimode capacity, and an …

Reducing decoherence in optical and spin transitions in rare-earth-metal-ion–doped materials

DL McAuslan, JG Bartholomew, MJ Sellars… - Physical Review A …, 2012 - APS
In many important situations, the dominant dephasing mechanism in cryogenic rare-earth-
metal-ion–doped systems is due to magnetic field fluctuations from spins in the host crystal …

Optical coherence of 166Er: 7LiYF4 crystal below 1 K

N Kukharchyk, D Sholokhov, O Morozov… - New Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore optical coherence and spin dynamics of an isotopically purified 166 Er: 7 LiYF 4
crystal below 1 K and at weak magnetic fields< 0.3 T. Crystals were grown in our lab and …