Piezo-optomechanical Actuation of Nanobeam Resonators for Microwave-to-Optical Transduction

Guha, Biswarup; Wu, Marcelo; Song, Jin Dong; Balram, Krishna C.; Srinivasan, Kartik

doi:10.1364/cleo_si.2021.stu2h.4

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“…Such frequency matching can be difficult in practice, in particular, as the mechanical resonators lack the readily available tuning knobs common to integrated photonics. We note that the recent experimental demonstration of superconducting qubit‐to‐optical photon transduction experiment follows a similar approach in hybridizing the nanobeam breathing mode with a propagating mode in a silicon phononic crystal waveguide, which can be efficiently excited by a piezoelectric AlN layer deposited on top of the silicon [ 20 ] ; related progress has also been made in GaAs, [ 54 ] and similar acoustic mode hybridization concepts have recently been explored in GaP piezo‐optomechanical transducers. [ 55 ]…”

Section: Transduction Using High‐g0 1d Nanobeam Optomechanical Crystalsmentioning

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Piezoelectric Optomechanical Approaches for Efficient Quantum Microwave‐to‐Optical Signal Transduction: The Need for Co‐Design

Balram

Srinivasan

2022

Adv Quantum Tech

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Piezoelectric optomechanical platforms represent one of the most promising routes toward achieving quantum transduction of photons between the microwave and optical frequency domains. However, there are significant challenges to achieving near‐unity transduction efficiency. The authors discuss such factors in the context of the two main approaches being pursued for high efficiency transduction. The first approach uses 1D nanobeam optomechanical crystals excited by interdigitated transducers and is characterized by large single‐photon optomechanical coupling strength, limited intracavity pump photon population to avoid absorption‐induced heating (at cryogenic temperature), and low phonon injection efficiency from the transducer to the optomechanical cavity. The second approach uses (quasi) bulk acoustic wave resonators integrated into photonic Fabry–Perot cavity geometries and is characterized by low single‐photon optomechanical coupling strength, high intracavity pump photon population without significant heating, and high phonon injection efficiency. After reviewing the current status of both approaches, the need for co‐designing the electromechanical and optomechanical sub‐systems is discussed in order to achieve high transduction efficiencies, taking the GaAs piezo‐optomechanical platform as an example.

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Section: Transduction Using High‐g0 1d Nanobeam Optomechanical Crystalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Piezoelectric Optomechanical Approaches for Efficient Quantum Microwave‐to‐Optical Signal Transduction: The Need for Co‐Design

Balram

Srinivasan

2022

Adv Quantum Tech

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“…The structure is typically a solid and its quantum control is in itself a milestone in physics research [1]. Further motivation for research in the field comes from quantum technologies, where photon-to-photon transducers [2,3] and quantum memories [4] are necessary for quantum communication and information processing, and quantum sensing, where optomechanical devices take the role of high precision sensors [5,6], for example.…”

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Optomechanical Simulation of a Parametric Oscillator

Onah

Ventura-Velázquez

Maldonado-Villamizar

et al. 2023

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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We study an optomechanical device supporting at least three optical modes in the infrared telecommunication band and three mechanical vibration modes. We model the coherent driving of each optical mode, independently of each other, to obtain an effective Hamiltonian showing the different types of parametric processes allowed in the device. We propose a bichromatic driving scheme, in the lossy optical cavity regime, under a mean field approximation, that provides the quantum simulation of a parametric oscillator with optical control of its parameters.

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“…Another source of motivation for further research in this field is quantum technologies. Quantum communication and information processing in the second quantum revolution require devices like photon-to-photon transducers [7,8] and quantum memories [9]. Additionally, optomechanical devices serve as highly precise sensors in quantum sensing applications [10,11], highlighting the diverse research opportunities within cavity optomechanics.…”

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Optomechanical simulation of a time-dependent parametric oscillator

Ventura-Velázquez,

Maldonado-Villamizar,

Jaramillo-Ávila

et al. 2023

Phys. Scr.

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We explore a finite element model of a standard one-dimensional photonic crystal cavity etched on a nanobeam designed to enhance optomechanical coupling. We theoretically demonstrate that polychromatic driving of the mechanical sidebands produces an effective Hamiltonian model showing optical self- and cross-Kerr terms and parametric interaction between the optical and mechanical modes. For the sake of providing an example, we show that bi-chromating driving, near the first and second red-sidebands, produces an analog simulation of a mechanical parametric oscillator that exhibits a squeezed vacuum ground state in the time-independent case, and in the time-dependent case, the evolution of the mechanical ground state produces displaced squeezed vacuum.

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Piezo-optomechanical Actuation of Nanobeam Resonators for Microwave-to-Optical Transduction

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Piezoelectric Optomechanical Approaches for Efficient Quantum Microwave‐to‐Optical Signal Transduction: The Need for Co‐Design

Piezoelectric Optomechanical Approaches for Efficient Quantum Microwave‐to‐Optical Signal Transduction: The Need for Co‐Design

Optomechanical Simulation of a Parametric Oscillator

Optomechanical simulation of a time-dependent parametric oscillator

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