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We demonstrate a neutral atom networking node that combines high photon collection efficiency with high atom photon entanglement fidelity in a compact, fiber integrated platform. A parabolic mirror is used both to form the trap and to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 A. Safari , E. Oh , P. Huft , G. Chase , J. Zhang , M. Saffman

Coherent interactions between electromagnetic and matter waves lie at the heart of quantum science and technology. However, the diffraction nature of light has limited the scalability of many atom-light based quantum systems. Here, we use…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Mingjie Xin , Wui Seng Leong , Zilong Chen , Shau-Yu Lan

A quantum emitter interacting with photons in a single optical-mode constitutes a one-dimensional atom. A coherent and efficiently coupled one-dimensional atom provides a large nonlinearity, enabling photonic quantum gates. Achieving a high…

The long-range interaction between Rydberg-excited atoms endows a medium with large optical nonlinearity. Here, we demonstrate an optical switch to operate on a single photon from an entangled photon pair under a Rydberg electromagnetically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Yi-Chen Yu , Ming-Xin Dong , Ying-Hao Ye , Guang-Can Guo , Dong-Sheng Ding , Bao-Sen Shi

A significant challenge in the development of chip-scale cavity-optomechanical devices as testbeds for quantum experiments and classical metrology lies in the coupling of light from nanoscale optical mode volumes to conventional optical…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Justin D. Cohen , Sean Meenehan , Oskar Painter

Recent quantum technologies have established precise quantum control of various microscopic systems using electromagnetic waves. Interfaces based on cryogenic cavity electro-optic systems are particularly promising, due to the direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Liu Qiu , Rishabh Sahu , William Hease , Georg Arnold , Johannes M. Fink

We experimentally demonstrate controlled polarization-selective phenomena in a whispering gallery mode resonator. We observed efficient ($\approx 75 %$) polarization conversion of light in a silica microsphere coupled to a tapered optical…

Quantum communications technologies require a network of quantum processors connected with low loss and low noise communication channels capable of distributing entangled states. Superconducting microwave qubits operating in cryogenic…

A fiber taper waveguide is used to perform direct optical spectroscopy of a microdisk-quantum-dot system, exciting the system through the photonic (light) channel rather than the excitonic (matter) channel. Strong coupling, the regime of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kartik Srinivasan , Oskar Painter

Highly prolate-shaped whispering-gallery-mode "bottle microresonators" have recently attracted considerable attention due to their advantageous properties. We experimentally show that such resonators offer ultra-high quality factors,…

Optics · Physics 2011-05-03 D. O'Shea , C. Junge , S. Nickel , M. Poellinger , A. Rauschenbeutel

Interfacing stationary qubits with propagating photons is a fundamental problem in quantum technology. Cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) invokes a mediator degree of freedom in the form of a far-detuned cavity mode, the adaptation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Nathanaël Cottet , Haonan Xiong , Long B. Nguyen , Yen-Hsiang Lin , Vladimir E. Manucharyan

We study the optical response of double optomechanical cavity system assisted by Rydberg atomic ensembles. And atomic ensembles are only coupled with one side cavity by a single cavity mode. It has been realized that a long-range…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Yi-Mou Liu , Feng Gao , Jing Wang , Jin-Hui Wu

We study the single photon transfer in a hybrid system where the normal modes of two coupled resonator arrays interact with two transition arms of a ?-type atom localized in the intersectional resonator. It is found that, due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 T. Tian , D. Z. Xu , T. Y. Zheng , C. P. Sun

We realize controlled cavity-mediated photon transfer between two single nanoparticles over a distance of several tens of micrometers. First, we show how a single nanoscopic emitter attached to a near-field probe can be coupled to high-Q…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 S. Gotzinger , L. de S. Menezes , A. Mazzei , O. Benson , S. Kuhn , V. Sandoghdar

We show how high fidelity quantum teleportation of light to atoms can be achieved in the same setup as was used in the recent experiment [J. Sherson et.al., quant-ph/0605095, accepted by Nature], where such an inter-species quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Hammerer , E. S. Polzik , J. I. Cirac

We report on a process for the fiber-coupling of electrically driven cavity-enhanced quantum dot light emitting devices. The developed technique allows for the direct and permanent coupling of p-i-n-doped quantum dot micropillar cavities to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Lucas Rickert , Frederik Schröder , Timm Gao , Christian Schneider , S. Höfling , T. Heindel

Optical mode-splitting is an efficient tool to shape and fine-tune the spectral response of resonant nanophotonic devices. The active control of mode-splitting, however, is either small or accompanied by undesired resonance shifts, often…

The use of multicore optical fibers is now recognized as one of the most promising methods to implement the space-division multiplexing techniques required to overcome the impending capacity limit of conventional single-mode optical fibers.…

We investigate the possibility of realising effective quantum gates between two atoms in distant cavities coupled by an optical fibre. We show that highly reliable swap and entangling gates are achievable. We exactly study the stability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessio Serafini , Stefano Mancini , Sougato Bose

We suggest using a two-color evanescent light field around a subwavelength-diameter fiber to trap and guide atoms. The optical fiber carries a red-detuned light and a blue-detuned light, with both modes far from resonance. When both input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fam Le Kien , V. I. Balykin , K. Hakuta