Slowing and stopping light using an optomechanical crystal array
Abstract
One of the major advances needed to realize all-optical information processing of light is the ability to delay or coherently store and retrieve optical information in a rapidly tunable manner. In the classical domain, this optical buffering is expected to be a key ingredient of managing the flow of information over complex optical networks. Such a system also has profound implications for quantum information processing, serving as a long-term memory that can store the full quantum information contained in an optical pulse. Here, we suggest a novel approach to light storage involving an optical waveguide coupled to an optomechanical crystal array, where light in the waveguide can be dynamically and coherently transferred into long-lived mechanical vibrations of the array. Under realistic conditions, this system is capable of achieving large bandwidths and storage/delay times in a compact, on-chip platform.
Additional Information
© 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellsc. Received 24 November 2010; Published 1 February 2011. This work was supported by the DARPA/MTO ORCHID program through a grant from AFOSR. DC acknowledges support from the NSF and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Caltech's Center for the Physics of Information. ASN acknowledges support from NSERC. MH acknowledges support from the US Army Research Office MURI award W911NF0910406.Attached Files
Published - Chang2011p13075New_J._Phys.pdf
Submitted - Chang2010p13185Aip_Conf_Proc.pdf
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20110321-091105171
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- NSF
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Army Research Office (ARO)
- W911NF0910406
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2011-03-21Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2022-07-12Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Institute for Quantum Information and Matter