Optomechanical Systems as Single Photon Routers

Abstract

We demonstrate theoretically the possibility of using nano mechanical systems as single photon routers. We show how EIT in cavity optomechanical systems can be used to produce a switch for a probe field in a single photon Fock state using very low pumping powers of few microwatt. We present estimates of vacuum and thermal noise and show the optimal performance of the single photon switch is deteriorated by only few percent even at temperatures of the order of 20 mK.

4 pages, 6 figures

References in corpus (15)

• The Quantum Internet
• Optomechanically induced transparency
• Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Slow Light with Optomechanics
• Strong dispersive coupling of a high finesse cavity to a micromechanical membrane
• Observation of strong coupling between a micromechanical resonator and an optical cavity field
• Circuit cavity electromechanics in the strong coupling regime
• The Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Mechanical Effects of Light
• Controllable scattering of photons inside a one-dimensional resonator waveguide
• The Single-Photon Router
• Electromagnetically induced transparency with single atoms in a cavity
• Coherent mixing of mechanical excitations in nano-optomechanical structures
• Few-photon transport in low-dimensional systems: Interaction-induced radiation trapping
• Optomechanical trapping and cooling of partially transparent mirrors
• Vacuum-Induced Transparency
• Ultrafast switching of photonic entanglement

Cited by in corpus (31)

• Quantum Routing of Single Photons with Cyclic Three-Level System
• Tunable double optomechanically induced transparency in an optomechanical system
• Precision measurement of charge number with optomechanically induced transparency
• Optical nonreciprocity and optomechanical circulator in three-mode optomechanical systems
• Nonreciprocal conversion between microwave and optical photons in electro-optomechanical systems
• Phonon mediated electromagnetically induced absorption in hybrid opto-electro mechanical systems
• Antibunching photons in a cavity coupled to an optomechanical system
• Control and manipulation of electromagentically induced transparency in a nonlinear optomechanical system with two movable mirrors
• Single-photon quantum router with multiple output ports
• Superluminal and Ultraslow Light Propagation in Optomechanical Systems
• Directional amplifier in an optomechanical system with optical gain
• Cavity-Enhanced Long-Distance Coupling of an Atomic Ensemble to a Micromechanical Membrane
• Nanomechanical Inverse Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Confinement of Light in Normal modes
• Invariant-based inverse engineering for fluctuation transfer between membranes in an optomechanical cavity system
• Collective photon routing improvement in a dissipative quantum emitter chain strongly coupled to a chiral waveguide QED ladder
• Tunable multi-channel inverse optomechanically induced transparency
• Force-induced transparency and conversion between slow and fast lights in optomechanics
• Single photon transmission in strong three-mode optomechanical circulatory system
• Single-photon Quantum Router by Two Distant Artificial Atoms
• Amplifying Frequency Up-Converted Infrared Signals with a Molecular Optomechanical Cavity
• Multimode interference induced optical nonreciprocity and routing in an optical microcavity
• Detection of a weak magnetic field via cavity enhanced Faraday rotation
• An efficiently and tunable switch between slow- and fast-light in double mode with an optomechanical system
• Optical response of a dual membrane active-passive optomechanical cavity
• Efficient, High-Fidelity Single-Photon Switch Based on Waveguide-Coupled Cavities
• Proposal for a transmon-based quantum router
• Multiphonon quantum dynamics in cavity optomechanical systems
• Multiterminal Nonreciprocal Routing in an Optomechanical Plaquette via Synthetic Magnetism
• Quantum and classical control of single photon states via a mechanical resonator
• Enhancing Nonreciprocity through Squeezing-Induced Symmetry Breaking
• Routing single photons with quantum emitters coupled to nanostructures