Towards cavity-enhanced detection of single rare earth ions

I present our progress towards developing optical quantum memories based on photonic crystal cavities fabricated in rare-earth-doped crystals. These devices exhibit large spontaneous emission rate enhancement, enabling optical control of single rare-earth ion quantum bits.

Conference on Lasers and Electro-OpticsJan 1, 20170 citations

Towards cavity-enhanced detection of single rare earth ions

Julia Benedikter, Bernardo Casabone, Thomas Hümmer, Alban Ferrier, Philippe Goldner, Theodor W. Hänsch, David Hunger

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