Design of a release-free piezo-optomechanical quantum transducer

Burger, P., Frey, J., Kolvik, J., Hambraeus, D., & Van Laer, R. (2024). Design of a release-free piezo-optomechanical quantum transducer.
Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15134

Clamped and sideband-resolved silicon optomechanical crystals

We present a new class of clamped OMCs realizing — for the first time — optomechanical interactions in the resolved-sideband regime required for quantum transduction. We observe a record zero-point optomechanical coupling rate of g0/(2π)0.50 MHz along with a sevenfold improvement in the single-photon cooperativity of clamped OMCs.

 

J. Kolvik*, P. Burger*, J. Frey & R. Van Laer. “Clamped and sideband-resolved silicon optomechanical crystals,” Optica 7 (10) (2023). https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.492143
*equally contributed

Optically heralded microwave photon addition

We implement and demonstrate a transducer device and use it to show that by detecting an optical photon we add a single photon to the microwave field. We achieve this by using a gigahertz nanomechanical resonance as an intermediary, and efficiently coupling it to optical and microwave channels through strong optomechanical and piezoelectric interactions.

 

W. Jiang*, F. M. Mayor*, S. Malik, R. Van Laer, T. P. McKenna, R. N. Patel, J. D. Witmer, A. H. Safavi-Naeini. “Optically heralded microwave photon addition,” Nature Physics (2023). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-02129-w
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Room-temperature Mechanical Resonator with a Single Added or Subtracted Phonon

R.N. Patel, T.P. McKenna, Z. Wang, J. D. Witmer, W. Jiang, R. Van Laer, C. J. Sarabalis, A. H. Safavi-Naeini. “Room-temperature Mechanical Resonator with a Single Added or Subtracted Phonon”. Physical Review Letters, 2021. 127 (133602). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.133602

A silicon‐organic hybrid platform for quantum microwave-to-optical transduction

J. D. Witmer*, T. P. McKenna*, P. Arrangoiz-Arriola, R. Van Laer, E. Alex Wollack, F. Lin, A. K.-Y. Jen, J. Luo, and A. H. Safavi-Naeini, “A silicon‐organic hybrid platform for quantum microwave-to-optical transduction,” Quantum Science and Technology, vol. 5, no. 3, p. 034004, Apr. 2020, https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/ab7eed
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Cryogenic packaging of an optomechanical crystal

T. P. McKenna*, R. N. Patel*, J. D. Witmer*, R. Van Laer*, J. A. Valery, and A. H. Safavi-Naeini, “Cryogenic packaging of an optomechanical crystal,” Optics Express, vol. 27, no. 20, p. 28782, Sep. 2019, https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.028782.
*equally contributed

Optomechanical antennas for on-chip beam-steering


C. J. Sarabalis*, R. Van Laer*, and A. H. Safavi-Naeini, “Optomechanical antennas for on-chip beam-steering,” Optics Express, vol. 26, no. 17, p. 22075, Aug. 2018, https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.022075
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Electrical driving of X-band mechanical waves in a silicon photonic circuit

R. Van Laer, R. N. Patel, T. P. McKenna, J. D. Witmer, and A. H. Safavi-Naeini, “Electrical driving of X-band mechanical waves in a silicon photonic circuit,” APL Photonics, vol. 3, no. 8, p. 086102, Aug. 2018, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5042428

Thermal Brillouin noise observed in silicon optomechanical waveguide

R. Van Laer, C. J. Sarabalis, R. Baets, D. Van Thourhout, and A. H. Safavi-Naeini, “Thermal Brillouin noise observed in silicon optomechanical waveguide,” Journal of Optics, vol. 19, no. 4, p. 044002, Apr. 2017, https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8986/aa600d

Nonlinear optical interactions in silicon waveguides

B. Kuyken, F. Leo, S. Clemmen, U. Dave, R. Van Laer, T. Ideguchi, H. Zhao, X. Liu, J. Safioui, S. Coen, S. P. Gorza, S. K. Selvaraja, S. Massar, R. M. Osgood, P. Verheyen, J. Van Campenhout, R. Baets, W. M. J. Green, and G. Roelkens, “Nonlinear optical interactions in silicon waveguides,” Nanophotonics, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 377–392, Mar. 2017, https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2016-0001