Proposal for an optomechanical traveling wave phonon–photon translator

By A. Safavi-Naeini, Oskar J. Painter. 2010

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In this paper, we describe a general optomechanical system for converting photons to phonons in an efficient and reversible manner. We analyze classically and quantum mechanically the conversion process and proceed to a more concrete description of a phonon–photon translator (PPT) formed from coupled photonic and phononic crystal planar circuits. The application of the PPT to RF-microwave photonics and circuit QED, including proposals utilizing this system for optical wavelength conversion, long-lived quantum memory and state transfer from optical to superconducting qubits, is considered.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in physics, chemistry, and beyond (2016, background): “This mechanically-mediated optical state transfer can play an important role in a hybrid quantum network, enabling quantum communication between disparate quantum systems (Regal and Lehnert, 2011; Safavi-Naeini and Painter, 2011; Stannigel et al., 2010; Tian and Wang, 2010).”
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Pulsed excitation dynamics of an optomechanical crystal resonator near its quantum ground-state of motion (2015, unknown): “In the specific example of optomechanically mediated coherent transfer of photons between optical and superconducting microwave resonators [8,9], the relevant figure of merit is the effective cooperativity Ceff ≡ C=nb, where nb is the effective bath occupancy defined such that γbnb 1⁄4 γ0n0 þ γpnp, ”
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