Optica QuantumPub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1364/opticaq.520843
Michael T. Solomon, Martin Koppenhöfer, Mikhail Mamaev, Cheng Ji, Gregory Grant, Ignas Masiulionis, Sean E. Sullivan, F. Joseph Heremans, Supratik Guha, David D. Awschalom, Aashish A. Clerk, Alan M. Dibos
{"title":"Anomalous Purcell decay of strongly driven inhomogeneous emitters coupled to a cavity","authors":"Michael T. Solomon, Martin Koppenhöfer, Mikhail Mamaev, Cheng Ji, Gregory Grant, Ignas Masiulionis, Sean E. Sullivan, F. Joseph Heremans, Supratik Guha, David D. Awschalom, Aashish A. Clerk, Alan M. Dibos","doi":"10.1364/opticaq.520843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/opticaq.520843","url":null,"abstract":"We perform resonant fluorescence lifetime measurements on a nanocavity-coupled erbium ensemble as a function of cavity-laser detuning and pump power. Our measurements reveal an anomalous three-fold suppression of the ensemble Purcell factor at zero cavity detuning and high pump fluence. We capture qualitative aspects of this decay rate suppression using a Tavis–Cummings model of non-interacting spins coupled to a common cavity.","PeriodicalId":501828,"journal":{"name":"Optica Quantum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141869740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optica QuantumPub Date : 2024-03-26DOI: 10.1364/opticaq.504834
Becca VanDrunen, Juanjuan Ren, Sebastian Franke, and Stephen Hughes
{"title":"Gain-compensated metal cavity modes and a million-fold improvement of Purcell factors","authors":"Becca VanDrunen, Juanjuan Ren, Sebastian Franke, and Stephen Hughes","doi":"10.1364/opticaq.504834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/opticaq.504834","url":null,"abstract":"Using a rigorous mode theory for gain-compensated plasmonic dimers, we demonstrate how quality factors and Purcell factors can be dramatically increased, improving the quality factors from 10 to over 26,000 and the peak Purcell factors from approximately 3000 to over 10 billion. Full three-dimensional calculations are presented for gold dimers in a finite-size gain medium, which allows one to easily surpass fundamental Purcell factor limits of lossy media. Within a regime of linear system response, we show how the Purcell factors are modified by the contributions from the projected local density of states as well as a non-local gain. Further, we show that the effective mode volume and radiative beta factors remain relatively constant, despite the significant enhancement of the Purcell factors.","PeriodicalId":501828,"journal":{"name":"Optica Quantum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140311927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optica QuantumPub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1364/opticaq.502464
Craig R. Copeland, Adam L. Pintar, Ronald G. Dixson, Ashish Chanana, Kartik Srinivasan, Daron A. Westly, B. Robert Ilic, Marcelo I. Davanco, and Samuel M. Stavis
{"title":"Traceable localization enables accurate integration of quantum emitters and photonic structures with high yield","authors":"Craig R. Copeland, Adam L. Pintar, Ronald G. Dixson, Ashish Chanana, Kartik Srinivasan, Daron A. Westly, B. Robert Ilic, Marcelo I. Davanco, and Samuel M. Stavis","doi":"10.1364/opticaq.502464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/opticaq.502464","url":null,"abstract":"In a popular integration process for quantum information technologies, localization microscopy of quantum emitters guides lithographic placement of photonic structures. However, a complex coupling of microscopy and lithography errors degrades registration accuracy, severely limiting device performance and process yield. We introduce a methodology to solve this widespread but poorly understood problem. A new foundation of traceable localization enables rapid characterization of lithographic standards and comprehensive calibration of cryogenic microscopes, revealing and correcting latent systematic effects. Of particular concern, we discover that scale factor deviation and complex optical distortion couple to dominate registration errors. These novel results parameterize a process model for integrating quantum dots and bullseye resonators, predicting higher yield by orders of magnitude, depending on the Purcell factor threshold as a quantum performance metric. Our foundational methodology is a key enabler of the lab-to-fab transition of quantum information technologies and has broader implications to cryogenic and correlative microscopy.","PeriodicalId":501828,"journal":{"name":"Optica Quantum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140155528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optica QuantumPub Date : 2024-03-12DOI: 10.1364/opticaq.509335
Andrew Mueller, Samantha I. Davis, Boris Korzh, Raju Valivarthi, Andrew D. Beyer, Rahaf Youssef, Neil Sinclair, Cristián Peña, Matthew D. Shaw, and Maria Spiropulu
{"title":"High-rate multiplexed entanglement source based on time-bin qubits for advanced quantum networks","authors":"Andrew Mueller, Samantha I. Davis, Boris Korzh, Raju Valivarthi, Andrew D. Beyer, Rahaf Youssef, Neil Sinclair, Cristián Peña, Matthew D. Shaw, and Maria Spiropulu","doi":"10.1364/opticaq.509335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/opticaq.509335","url":null,"abstract":"Entanglement distribution based on time-bin qubits is an attractive option for emerging quantum networks. We demonstrate a 4.09-GHz repetition rate source of photon pairs entangled across early and late time bins separated by 80 ps. Simultaneous high rates and high visibilities are achieved through frequency multiplexing the spontaneous parametric down conversion output into eight time-bin entangled channel pairs. We demonstrate entanglement visibilities as high as 99.4%, total entanglement rates up to 3.55×10<sup>6</sup> coincidences/s, and predict a straightforward path towards achieving up to an order of magnitude improvement in rates without compromising visibility. Finally, we resolve the density matrices of the entangled states for each multiplexed channel and express distillable entanglement rates in ebit/s, thereby quantifying the trade-off between visibility and coincidence rates that contributes to useful entanglement distribution. This source is a fundamental building block for high-rate entanglement-based quantum key distribution systems or advanced quantum networks.","PeriodicalId":501828,"journal":{"name":"Optica Quantum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140126640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optica QuantumPub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1364/opticaq.510021
Raphael Holzinger, Jonah S. Peter, Stefan Ostermann, Helmut Ritsch, and Susanne Yelin
{"title":"Harnessing quantum emitter rings for efficient energy transport and trapping","authors":"Raphael Holzinger, Jonah S. Peter, Stefan Ostermann, Helmut Ritsch, and Susanne Yelin","doi":"10.1364/opticaq.510021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/opticaq.510021","url":null,"abstract":"Efficient transport and harvesting of excitation energy under low light conditions is an important process in nature and quantum technologies alike. Here we formulate a quantum optics perspective to excitation energy transport in configurations of two-level quantum emitters with a particular emphasis on efficiency and robustness against disorder. We study a periodic geometry of emitter rings with subwavelength spacing, where collective electronic states emerge due to near-field dipole–dipole interactions. The system gives rise to collective subradiant states that are particularly suited to excitation transport and are protected from energy disorder and radiative decoherence. Comparing ring geometries with other configurations shows that the former are more efficient in absorbing, transporting, and trapping incident light. Because our findings are agnostic as to the specific choice of quantum emitters, they indicate general design principles for quantum technologies with superior photon transport properties and may elucidate potential mechanisms resulting in the highly efficient energy transport efficiencies in natural light-harvesting systems.","PeriodicalId":501828,"journal":{"name":"Optica Quantum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140074804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optica QuantumPub Date : 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1364/opticaq.505457
Luigi Santamaria, Fabrizio Sgobba, and Cosmo Lupo
{"title":"Single-photon sub-Rayleigh precision measurements of a pair of incoherent sources of unequal intensity","authors":"Luigi Santamaria, Fabrizio Sgobba, and Cosmo Lupo","doi":"10.1364/opticaq.505457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/opticaq.505457","url":null,"abstract":"Interferometric methods have been recently investigated to achieve sub-Rayleigh imaging and precision measurements of faint incoherent sources up to the ultimate quantum limit. Here we consider single-photon imaging of two point-like emitters of unequal intensity. This is motivated by the fact that pairs of natural emitters typically have unequal brightness, for example, binary star systems and exoplanets. We address the problem of estimating the transverse separation <i>d</i> or the relative intensity <span><span>epsilon</span><script type=\"math/tex\">epsilon</script></span>. Our theoretical analysis shows that the associated statistical errors are qualitatively different from the case of equal intensity. We employ multi-plane light conversion technology to implement Hermite–Gaussian (HG) spatial-mode demultiplexing (SPADE), and demonstrate sub-Rayleigh measurement of two emitters with a Gaussian point-spread function. The experimental errors are comparable with the theoretical bounds. The latter are benchmarked against direct imaging, yielding an <span><span>epsilon ^{-1/2}</span><script type=\"math/tex\">epsilon ^{-1/2}</script></span> improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio, which may be significant when the primary source is much brighter than the secondary one, for example, as for imaging of exoplanets.","PeriodicalId":501828,"journal":{"name":"Optica Quantum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139924125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optica QuantumPub Date : 2024-01-30DOI: 10.1364/opticaq.502459
Konrad Schlichtholz, Tomasz Linowski, Mattia Walschaers, Nicolas Treps, Łukasz Rudnicki, and Giacomo Sorelli
{"title":"Practical tests for sub-Rayleigh source discriminations with imperfect demultiplexers","authors":"Konrad Schlichtholz, Tomasz Linowski, Mattia Walschaers, Nicolas Treps, Łukasz Rudnicki, and Giacomo Sorelli","doi":"10.1364/opticaq.502459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/opticaq.502459","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum-optimal discrimination between one and two closely separated light sources can be theoretically achieved by ideal spatial-mode demultiplexing, simply monitoring whether a photon is detected in a single antisymmetric mode. However, we show that for any imperfections of the demultiplexer, no matter how small, this simple statistical test becomes practically useless. While we identify a class of separation-independent tests with vanishing error probabilities in the limit of large numbers of detected photons, they are generally unreliable beyond that very limit. As a practical alternative, we propose a simple semi-separation-independent test, which provides a method for designing reliable experiments, through arbitrary control over the maximal probability of error.","PeriodicalId":501828,"journal":{"name":"Optica Quantum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139649542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optica QuantumPub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1364/opticaq.506601
Duncan England, R. Tannous, Kent Fisher, Daniel Poitras, Cyril Hnatovsky, Stephen Mihailov, P. Bustard, Benjamin Sussman
{"title":"Storage of telecom wavelength heralded single photons in a fiber cavity quantum memory","authors":"Duncan England, R. Tannous, Kent Fisher, Daniel Poitras, Cyril Hnatovsky, Stephen Mihailov, P. Bustard, Benjamin Sussman","doi":"10.1364/opticaq.506601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/opticaq.506601","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501828,"journal":{"name":"Optica Quantum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139444285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optica QuantumPub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.1364/opticaq.500322
Evan Manfreda, J. D. Elliott, Matthew van Niekerk, Daniel Proctor, Mario Ciminelli, Thomas W. Palone, Christopher Tison, Michael Fanto, Stefan F Preble, Gregory Howland
{"title":"High-Dimensional Path-Entangled Qudits on a Silicon Photonic Chip","authors":"Evan Manfreda, J. D. Elliott, Matthew van Niekerk, Daniel Proctor, Mario Ciminelli, Thomas W. Palone, Christopher Tison, Michael Fanto, Stefan F Preble, Gregory Howland","doi":"10.1364/opticaq.500322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/opticaq.500322","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501828,"journal":{"name":"Optica Quantum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138950778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Optica QuantumPub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1364/opticaq.501048
Jelena V. Rakonjac, Samuele Grandi, Sören Wengerowsky, Dario Lago-Rivera, Félicien Appas, and Hugues de Riedmatten
{"title":"Transmission of light–matter entanglement over a metropolitan network","authors":"Jelena V. Rakonjac, Samuele Grandi, Sören Wengerowsky, Dario Lago-Rivera, Félicien Appas, and Hugues de Riedmatten","doi":"10.1364/opticaq.501048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/opticaq.501048","url":null,"abstract":"We report on the transmission of telecom photons entangled with a multimode solid-state quantum memory over a deployed optical fiber in a metropolitan area. Photon pairs were generated through spontaneous parametric downconversion, with one photon stored in a rare-earth-based quantum memory, and the other, at telecommunication wavelengths, traveling through increasing distances of optical fiber, first in the laboratory and then outside in a deployed fiber loop. We measured highly non-classical correlations between the stored and the telecom photons for storage times up to 25 µs and for a fiber separation up to 50 km. We also report light–matter entanglement with a two-qubit fidelity up to 88%, which remains constant within error bars for all fiber lengths, showing that the telecom qubit does not suffer decoherence during the transmission. Finally, we moved the detection stage of the telecom photons to a different location placed 16 km away, and confirmed the non-classical correlations between the two photons. Our system was adapted to provide the transmission of precise detection times and synchronization signals over long quantum communication channels, providing the first steps for a future quantum network involving quantum memories and non-classical states.","PeriodicalId":501828,"journal":{"name":"Optica Quantum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138817163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}