Harnessing Brillouin interaction in rare-earth aluminosilicate glass microwires for optoelectromechanic quantum transduction

Abstract

Quantum transduction, the process of converting quantum signals from one form of energy to another is a key step in harnessing different physical platforms and the associated qubits for quantum information processing. Optoelectromechanics has been one of the effective approaches to undertake transduction from optical-to-microwave signals, among others such as those using atomic ensembles, collective magnetostatic spin excitations, piezoelectricity and electro-optomechanical resonator using Silicon nitride membrane. One of the key areas of loss of photon conversion rate in optoelectromechanical method using Silicon nitride nanomembranes has been those in the electro-optic conversion. To address this, we propose the use of Brillouin interactions in a fiber mode that is allowed to be passed through a fiber taper in rare-earth Aluminium glass microwires. It suggests that we can efficiently convert a 195.57 THz optical signal to a 325.08 MHz microwave signal with the help of Brillouin interactions, with a whispering stimulated Brillouin scattering mode yielding a conversion efficiency of ∼45%.