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We report the observation of efficient and low-noise frequency conversion between two microwave modes, mediated by the motion of a mechanical resonator subjected to radiation pressure. We achieve coherent conversion of more than…

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Virtual photons can mediate interaction between atoms, resulting in an energy shift known as a collective Lamb shift. Observing the collective Lamb shift is challenging, since it can be obscured by radiative decay and direct atom-atom…

We propose to demonstrate nonreciprocal conversion between microwave and optical photons in an electro-optomechanical system where a microwave mode and an optical mode are coupled indirectly via two non-degenerate mechanical modes. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Xun-Wei Xu , Yong Li , Ai-Xi Chen , Yu-xi Liu

We have built an atomic microwave power standard based on the electromagnetic interaction with laser-cooled atoms. The atoms traversed a waveguide transmission line, and under the effect of the radiation, the internal state populations…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David C. Paulusse , Nelson L. Rowell , Alain Michaud

The paper studies the interaction of Lamb waves with the free edge of a plate. The reflection coefficients of a Lamb mode at a plate free edge are calculated using a semi-analytical method, as a function of frequency and angle of incidence.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-27 Benoît Gérardin , Jérôme Laurent , Claire Prada , Alexandre Aubry

Microelectromechanical systems and integrated photonics provide the basis for many reliable and compact circuit elements in modern communication systems. Electro-opto-mechanical devices are currently one of the leading approaches to realize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 J. M. Fink , M. Kalaee , R. Norte , A. Pitanti , O. Painter

Multi-longitudinal-mode lasers have been believed to be good candidates as pump sources for optical frequency conversion. However, we present a semi-classical model for frequency conversion of optical signals with a multimode pump laser,…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. S. Pelc , G. -L. Shentu , Q. Zhang , M. M. Fejer , J. -W. Pan

Frequency up-conversion of few low-energy photons into a single high-energy photon, greatly contributes to imaging, light sources, detection and other fields of research. However, it offers negligible efficiency when up-converting many…

Optics · Physics 2013-06-11 Assaf Manor , Nimrod Kruger , Carmel Rotschild

A novel, copper-based plasmonic system is presented to provide optical to microwave photon conversion. The process uses highly excited levels in Cu2O Rydberg excitons and takes advantage of spoof plasmons, which allow for significant…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-19 David Ziemkiewicz , Sylwia Zielińska-Raczyńska

Determining light shift in Raman-Ramsey interference is important for the development of atomic frequency standards based on a vapor cell. We have accurately calculated light shift in Raman-Ramsey interference using the density-matrix…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 G. S. Pati , Z. Warren , N. Yu , M. S. Shahriar

Frequency up-conversion is an effective method of mid-infrared (MIR) detection by converting the long-wavelength photons to the visible domain, where efficient detectors are readily available. Here, we generate the MIR light carrying…

Quantum transduction refers to the coherent conversion between microwave and optical states, which can be achieved by quantum teleportation if given high fidelity microwave-optical entanglement, namely entanglement-based quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-10 Changchun Zhong , Xu Han , Liang Jiang

Optical atomic clocks are poised to redefine the SI second, thanks to stability and accuracy more than one hundred times better than the current microwave atomic clock standard. However, the best optical clocks have not seen their…

We develop a theoretical description of a device for coherent conversion of microwave to optical photons. For the device, dopant ions in a crystal are used as three-level systems, and interact with the fields inside overlapping microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-06 Peter S. Barnett , Jevon J. Longdell

We theoretically proposed one of the approaches achieving the quantum entanglement between light and microwave by means of electro-optic effect. Based on the established full quantum model of electro-optic interaction, the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Jinkun Liao , Qizhi Cai , Qiang Zhou

The generation of ultra-low noise microwave and mmWave in miniaturized, chip-based platforms can transform communication, radar, and sensing systems. Optical frequency division that leverages optical references and optical frequency combs…

Transduction of quantum signals between the microwave and the optical ranges will unlock powerful hybrid quantum systems enabling information processing with superconducting qubits and low-noise quantum networking through optical photons.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Furkan Sahbaz , James N. Eckstein , Dale J. Van Harlingen , Simeon I. Bogdanov

We have demonstrated experimentally that infrared light at 1529.4nm can be converted into the visible at 780nm with 54% efficiency through a ladder-type atomic configuration in 85Rb. Specifically we theoretically analyze that high…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 Dong-Sheng Ding , Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Bao-Sen Shi , Xu-Bo Zou

Electrically actuated optomechanical resonators provide a route to quantum-coherent, bidirectional conversion of microwave and optical photons. Such devices could enable optical interconnection of quantum computers based on qubits operating…

We show that for the two widely used configurations of the double-$\Lambda$ atom-light coupling scheme, one where the control fields are applied in the same $\Lambda$-subsystem and another where they applied in different…