Large-bandwidth Transduction Between an Optical Single Quantum Dot Molecule and a Superconducting Resonator

Abstract

Quantum transduction between the microwave and optical domains is an outstanding challenge for long-distance quantum networks based on superconducting qubits. For all transducers realized to date, the generally weak light-matter coupling does not allow high transduction efficiency, large bandwidth, and low noise simultaneously. Here we show that a large electric dipole moment of an exciton in an optically active self-assembled quantum dot molecule (QDM) efficiently couples to a microwave resonator field at the single-photon level. This allows for transduction between microwave and optical photons without coherent optical pump fields to enhance the interaction. With an on-chip device, we demonstrate a sizeable single-photon coupling strength of 16 MHz. Thanks to the fast exciton decay in the QDM, the transduction bandwidth between an optical and microwave resonator photon reaches several 100 s of MHz. We also show that the transduction process via the QDM is fully coherent within the measurement error range.