Programmable frequency reference for subkilohertz laser stabilization by use of persistent spectral hole burning

Sellin, P. B.; Strickland, N. M.; Carlsten, J. L.; Cone, R. L.

doi:10.1364/ol.24.001038

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“…[113]) and fibre optics amplifiers [114,115], but more recently also for laser stabilization to programmable frequency standards [116][117][118][119][120][121][122], and radio frequency analyzers [123][124][125]. These studies, together with extensive fundamental investigations (see [84,126] and contributions by G. Liu and Y. C. Sun in [85]), have resulted in broad understanding of interactions in RE solids.…”

Section: Rare-earth-ion Doped Solidsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Photon‐echo quantum memory in solid state systems

Tittel¹,

Afzelius

Chanelière

et al. 2010

Laser & Photonics Reviews

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Many applications of quantum communication crucially depend on reversible transfer of quantum states between light and matter. Motivated by rapid recent developments in theory and experiment, we review research related to quantum memory based on a photon-echo approach in solid state material with emphasis on use in a quantum repeater. After introducing quantum communication, the quantum repeater concept, and properties of a quantum memory required to be useful in a quantum repeater, we describe the historical development from spin echoes, discovered in 1950, to photon-echo quantum memory. We present a simple theoretical description of the ideal protocol, and comment on the impact of a non-ideal realization on its quantum nature. We extensively discuss rare-earth-ion doped crystals and glasses as material candidates, elaborate on traditional photon-echo experiments as a test-bed for quantum state storage, and describe the current state-of-the-art of photon-echo quantum memory. Finally, we give a brief outlook on current research.The picture shows a Europium doped Y2SiO5 crystal surrounded by electrodes in the setup used for the first proof-of-principle demonstration of the novel, photon-echo based quantum memory protocol.

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Section: Rare-earth-ion Doped Solidsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Photon‐echo quantum memory in solid state systems

Tittel¹,

Afzelius

Chanelière

et al. 2010

Laser & Photonics Reviews

430

418

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“…Spectral-hole burning in cryogenically cooled crystals has been demonstrated as an alternative to FP cavities for laser-stabilization [15,16,17,18]. In such systems, the instantaneous laser frequency excursions are compared to the spectral memory stored in a crystal, and an error signal is derived to stabilize the laser.…”

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Frequency stabilization to 6 × 10−16 via spectral-hole burning

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We demonstrate two-stage laser stabilization based on a combination of FabryPérot and spectral-hole burning techniques. The laser is first pre-stabilized by the Fabry-Pérot cavity to a fractional-frequency stability of σ y (τ ) < 10 −13 . A pattern of spectral holes written in the absorption spectrum of Eu 3+ :Y 2 SiO 5 serves to further stabilize the laser to σ y (τ ) = 6 × 10 −16 for 2 s ≤ τ ≤ 8 s. Measurements characterizing the frequency sensitivity of Eu 3+ :Y 2 SiO 5 spectral holes to environmental perturbations suggest that they can be more frequencystable than Fabry-Pérot cavities.

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“…1 Due to these properties, such materials are of great interest for application in quantum information processing (QIP) [2][3][4][5] and spectral filtering. The latter includes radio frequency signal analysis, 6,7 highly stable laser-locking, 8,9 and ultrasound optical tomography (UOT). 10,11 Recently, rare-earth doped transparent ceramics have been suggested as an alternative class of materials for these applications, 12 as for lasers 13 and scintillators.…”

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Rare-earth doped transparent ceramics for spectral filtering and quantum information processing

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Homogeneous linewidths below 10 kHz are reported for the first time in high-quality Eu3+ doped Y 2O3 transparent ceramics. This result is obtained on the 7F0→5D0 transition in Eu3+ doped Y 2O3 ceramics and corresponds to an improvement of nearly one order of magnitude compared to previously reported values in transparent ceramics. Furthermore, we observed spectral hole lifetimes of ∼15 min that are long enough to enable efficient optical pumping of the nuclear hyperfine levels. Additionally, different Eu3+ concentrations (up to 1.0%) were studied, resulting in an increase of up to a factor of three in the peak absorption coefficient. These results suggest that transparent ceramics can be useful in applications where narrow and deep spectral holes can be burned into highly absorbing lines, such as quantum information processing and spectral filteringThis work was supported by the ANR projects RAMACO (No. 12-BS08-0015-01) and DISCRYS (No. 14-CE26-0037-01), Idex No. ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL⋆, and Nano’K project RECTUS. C.W.T. and R.L.C. acknowledge support from National Science Foundation (NSF) Award Nos. CHE-1416454 and PHY-1415628 and M.O.R. and L.E.B. from Project No. MAT2013- 43301-R of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid under Grant No. S2013/MIT-274

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Programmable frequency reference for subkilohertz laser stabilization by use of persistent spectral hole burning

Cited by 50 publications

References 16 publications

Photon‐echo quantum memory in solid state systems

Photon‐echo quantum memory in solid state systems

Frequency stabilization to 6 × 10−16 via spectral-hole burning

Rare-earth doped transparent ceramics for spectral filtering and quantum information processing

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