Steven Sagona-Stophel, Dounan Du, Sonali Gera, and Eden ......Steven Sagona-Stophel, Dounan Du,...

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Steven Sagona-Stophel, Dounan Du, Sonali Gera, and Eden Figueroa Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University

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Steven Sagona-Stophel, Dounan Du, Sonali Gera, and Eden Figueroa

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University

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Creates an effective χ2 nonlinearity [1] from χ3 :

QuantumMemory Photon-Photon Gate

FWM from χ3 !

? Low noise at room temperature?

High fidelity at single photon level??[1] Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 023601 (2016)

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“EIT-like” output FWM output

FWM from χ3 !

Low noise at room temperature!

High fidelity at single photon level!

χ3- Mediated processing: Λ

Quadrature statistics

=-2.7 rad

(probe & signal on)

(signal only On)

(probe only On)

Phase-shifted output

FWM output

“EIT-like” output

DL output CSF: >90%

FWM CSF: >95%

Quantum States

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Accepted

15 October 2020

Accepted to PRL, October 15, 2020

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χ

Λ

New gate scheme requires two effective χ(2) processes: 2-1 photon-up-conversion & 1-2 down-conversion

(Numeric Simulation)Abs(χ(3)) for Diamond

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Telecom frequency conversion:

2-1 Up-conversion Investigated:

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Photon-gates process with true single photons:

We need photon sources compatible with the small (3MHz) bandwidth.Built a cavity enhanced single photon source at Rb transitions:

Estimated pair rate: 5kHz for 5mW of Pump

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