Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Quantum-enabled operation of a microwave-optical interface

  • Rishabh Sahu,
  • William Hease,
  • Alfredo Rueda,
  • Georg Arnold,
  • Liu Qiu,
  • Johannes M. Fink

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28924-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Faithful conversion of quantum states between electrical circuits and light requires adding less than one input noise photon during conversion. Here, the authors demonstrate this based on coherent electro-optic upconversion with a transduction efficiency of 15%.