A long-lived spectrally multiplexed solid-state optical quantum memory for high-rate quantum repeaters

Autor: Antariksha Das, Mohsen Falamarzi Askarani, Jacob H. Davidson, Gustavo C. Amaral, Neil Sinclair, Joshua A. Slater, Sara Marzban, Daniel Oblak, Charles W. Thiel, Rufus L. Cone, Wolfgang Tittel
Přispěvatelé: Diamanti, Eleni, Ducci, Sara, Treps, Nicolas, Whitlock, Shannon
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 12133
ISSN: 0277-786X
Popis: Long optical storage times are an essential requirement to establish high-rate entanglement distribution over large distances using memory-based quantum repeaters. Rare earth ion-doped crystals are arguably well-suited candidates for building such quantum memories. Toward this end, we investigate the 795.32 nm 3H6 ↔ 3H4 transition of 1% thulium-doped yttrium gallium garnet crystal (Tm3+:Y3Ga5O12 : Tm3+:YGG). Most essentially, we find that the optical coherence time can reach 1.1 ms, and, using laser pulses, we demonstrate optical storage based on the atomic frequency comb (AFC) protocol up to 100 µs. In addition, we demonstrate multiplexed storage, including feed-forward selection, shifting, and filtering of spectral modes, as well as quantum state storage using members of non-classical photon pairs. Our results show that Tm:YGG can be a potential candidate for creating multiplexed quantum memories with long optical storage times.
Databáze: OpenAIRE