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Atomic Qubit Manipulations with an Electro-Optic Modulator

Lee, P J, Blinov, B B, Brickman, K A, Louis Deslauriers, Madsen, M J, Miller, R, Möhring, D L, Stick, D, Monroe, C

Published Apr 29, 2003• 25 citations
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Abstract

We report new techniques for driving high-fidelity stimulated Raman transitions in trapped ion qubits. An electro-optic modulator induces sidebands on an optical source, and interference between the sidebands allows coherent Rabi transitions to be efficiently driven between hyperfine ground states separated by 14.53 GHz in a single trapped 111 Cd + ion.

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