Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

On-chip Microwave to Optical Transduction Using Rare Earth Doped Materials

Andrei Faraon, Jake Rochman, Tian Xie, John G. Bartholomew

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations

Abstract

Rare-earth ions simultaneously coupled to optical and microwave resonators are one of the platforms for realizing efficient microwave to optical quantum transducers. I discuss our group’s recent progress towards this goal.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2021.jtu4b.2

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