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High-Q photonic resonators and electro-optic coupling using silicon-on-lithium-niobate

Future quantum networks, in which superconducting quantum processors are connected via optical links, will require microwave-to-optical photon converters that preserve entanglement. A doubly-resonant electro-optic modulator (EOM) is a promising platform to realize this conversion. Here, we present o...

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Autores principales: Witmer, Jeremy D., Valery, Joseph A., Arrangoiz-Arriola, Patricio, Sarabalis, Christopher J., Hill, Jeff T., Safavi-Naeini, Amir H.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5390248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28406177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep46313
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author Witmer, Jeremy D.
Valery, Joseph A.
Arrangoiz-Arriola, Patricio
Sarabalis, Christopher J.
Hill, Jeff T.
Safavi-Naeini, Amir H.
author_facet Witmer, Jeremy D.
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description Future quantum networks, in which superconducting quantum processors are connected via optical links, will require microwave-to-optical photon converters that preserve entanglement. A doubly-resonant electro-optic modulator (EOM) is a promising platform to realize this conversion. Here, we present our progress towards building such a modulator by demonstrating the optically-resonant half of the device. We demonstrate high quality (Q) factor ring, disk and photonic crystal resonators using a hybrid silicon-on-lithium-niobate material system. Optical Q factors up to 730,000 are achieved, corresponding to propagation loss of 0.8 dB/cm. We also use the electro-optic effect to modulate the resonance frequency of a photonic crystal cavity, achieving a electro-optic modulation coefficient between 1 and 2 pm/V. In addition to quantum technology, we expect that our results will be useful both in traditional silicon photonics applications and in high-sensitivity acousto-optic devices.
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spelling pubmed-53902482017-04-14 High-Q photonic resonators and electro-optic coupling using silicon-on-lithium-niobate Witmer, Jeremy D. Valery, Joseph A. Arrangoiz-Arriola, Patricio Sarabalis, Christopher J. Hill, Jeff T. Safavi-Naeini, Amir H. Sci Rep Article Future quantum networks, in which superconducting quantum processors are connected via optical links, will require microwave-to-optical photon converters that preserve entanglement. A doubly-resonant electro-optic modulator (EOM) is a promising platform to realize this conversion. Here, we present our progress towards building such a modulator by demonstrating the optically-resonant half of the device. We demonstrate high quality (Q) factor ring, disk and photonic crystal resonators using a hybrid silicon-on-lithium-niobate material system. Optical Q factors up to 730,000 are achieved, corresponding to propagation loss of 0.8 dB/cm. We also use the electro-optic effect to modulate the resonance frequency of a photonic crystal cavity, achieving a electro-optic modulation coefficient between 1 and 2 pm/V. In addition to quantum technology, we expect that our results will be useful both in traditional silicon photonics applications and in high-sensitivity acousto-optic devices. Nature Publishing Group 2017-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5390248/ /pubmed/28406177 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep46313 Text en Copyright © 2017, The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5390248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28406177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep46313
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