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arXiv:1111.2119 · Physical Review Letters

Adiabatic State Conversion and Pulse Transmission in Optomechanical Systems

Lin Tian

Published Apr 13, 2012• 309 citations
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Abstract

Optomechanical systems with strong coupling can be a powerful medium for quantum state engineering of the cavity modes. Here, we show that quantum state conversion between cavity modes of distinctively different wavelengths can be realized with high fidelity by adiabatically varying the effective optomechanical couplings. The conversion fidelity for gaussian states is derived by solving the Langevin equation in the adiabatic limit. Meanwhile, we also show that traveling photon pulses can be transmitted between different input and output channels with high fidelity and the output pulse can be engineered via the optomechanical couplings.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.108.153604

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