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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Scalable Optical Control for Atomic Qubits in a Silicon Nitride Platform

Adrian J. Menssen, Artur Hermans, Ian Christen, Mark Dong, Matthew Zimmermann, Andrew Jay Leenheer, Thomas Propson, Hugo Larocque, Gerald N. Gilbert, Matt Eichenfield, Dirk Englund

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

Here we present a new integrated photonics platform for optical quantum control that allows the generation of multiple high fidelity optical pulses to implement quantum gates on individual atomic qubits at speeds exceeding several hundred MHz.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_si.2022.stu4f.3

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