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20152024
most citedEfficient bidirectional piezo-optomechanical transduction between microwave and optical frequency

277 citations · 783 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

quant-ph2024★ 6 cited

Preserving phase coherence and linearity in cat qubits with exponential bit-flip suppression

Harald Putterman, Kyungjoo Noh, Rishi N. Patel +17

Cat qubits, a type of bosonic qubit encoded in a harmonic oscillator, can exhibit an exponential noise bias against bit-flip errors with increasing mean photon number. Here, we foc…

quant-ph2024★ 100 cited

Hardware-efficient quantum error correction via concatenated bosonic qubits

Harald Putterman, Kyungjoo Noh, Connor T. Hann +118

In order to solve problems of practical importance, quantum computers will likely need to incorporate quantum error correction, where a logical qubit is redundantly encoded in many…

quant-ph2022★ 4 cited

Optically heralded microwave photons

Wentao Jiang, Felix M. Mayor, Sultan Malik +5

A quantum network that distributes and processes entanglement would enable powerful new computers and sensors. Optical photons with a frequency of a few hundred terahertz are perha…

quant-ph2021★ 28 cited

Room-temperature Mechanical Resonator with a Single Added or Subtracted Phonon

Rishi N. Patel, Timothy P. McKenna, Zhaoyou Wang +5

A room-temperature mechanical oscillator undergoes thermal Brownian motion with an amplitude much larger than the amplitude associated with a single phonon of excitation. This moti…

physics.optics2020

Acousto-optic modulation of a wavelength-scale waveguide

Christopher J. Sarabalis, Raphaël Van Laer, Rishi N. Patel +4

We demonstrate a collinear acousto-optic modulator in a suspended film of lithium niobate employing a high-confinement, wavelength-scale waveguide. By strongly confining the optica…

physics.app-ph2020★ 43 cited

Loss channels affecting lithium niobate phononic crystal resonators at cryogenic temperature

E. Alex Wollack, Agnetta Y. Cleland, Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola +6

We investigate the performance of microwave-frequency phononic crystal resonators fabricated on thin-film lithium niobate for integration with superconducting quantum circuits. For…

physics.optics2020

Acousto-optic modulation in lithium niobate on sapphire

Christopher J. Sarabalis, Timothy P. McKenna, Rishi N. Patel +2

We demonstrate acousto-optic phase modulators in X-cut lithium niobate films on sapphire, detailing the dependence of the piezoelectric and optomechanical coupling coefficients on…

quant-ph2020★ 3 cited

Cryogenic microwave-to-optical conversion using a triply-resonant lithium niobate on sapphire transducer

Timothy P. McKenna, Jeremy D. Witmer, Rishi N. Patel +6

Quantum networks are likely to have a profound impact on the way we compute and communicate in the future. In order to wire together superconducting quantum processors over kilomet…

physics.app-ph2019

Nanobenders: efficient piezoelectric actuators for widely tunable nanophotonics at CMOS-level voltages

Wentao Jiang, Felix M. Mayor, Rishi N. Patel +3

Tuning and reconfiguring nanophotonic components is needed to realize systems incorporating many components. The electrostatic force can deform a structure and tune its optical res…

quant-ph2019★ 277 cited

Efficient bidirectional piezo-optomechanical transduction between microwave and optical frequency

Wentao Jiang, Christopher J. Sarabalis, Yanni D. Dahmani +5

Efficient interconversion of both classical and quantum information between microwave and optical frequency is an important engineering challenge. The optomechanical approach with…

physics.optics2019★ 2 cited

Alignment-free cryogenic optical coupling to an optomechanical crystal

Timothy P. McKenna, Rishi N. Patel, Jeremy D. Witmer +3

The need for highly accurate, labor-intensive optical alignment has been a major hurdle in our ability to leverage the power of complex photonic integrated circuits. There is a str…

physics.optics2019★ 127 cited

Lithium Niobate Piezo-optomechanical Crystals

Wentao Jiang, Rishi N. Patel, Felix M. Mayor +6

Demonstrating a device that efficiently connects light, motion, and microwaves is an outstanding challenge in classical and quantum photonics. We make significant progress in this…

quant-ph2018

Diamond optomechanical crystals with embedded nitrogen-vacancy centers

Jeffrey V Cady, Ohad Michel, Kenneth W Lee +4

Hybrid quantum devices, in which disparate quantum elements are combined in order to achieve enhanced functionality, have received much attention in recent years due to their excit…

physics.app-ph2018★ 25 cited

Electrical driving of X-band mechanical waves in a silicon photonic circuit

Raphaël Van Laer, Rishi N. Patel, Timothy P. McKenna +2

Reducing energy dissipation is a central goal of classical and quantum technologies. Optics achieved great success in bringing down power consumption of long-distance communication…

quant-ph2017★ 66 cited

A single-mode phononic wire

Rishi N. Patel, Zhaoyou Wang, Wentao Jiang +3

Photons and electrons transmit information to form complex systems and networks. Phonons on the other hand, the quanta of mechanical motion, are often considered only as carriers o…

physics.optics2017★ 21 cited

Engineering phonon leakage in nanomechanical resonators

Rishi N. Patel, Christopher J. Sarabalis, Wentao Jiang +2

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a technique for coupling phonons out of an optomechanical crystal cavity. By designing a perturbation that breaks a symmetry in the elasti…

physics.optics2016

Release-free silicon-on-insulator cavity optomechanics

Christopher J. Sarabalis, Yanni D. Dahmani, Rishi N. Patel +2

We demonstrate optically coupled nanomechanical resonators fabricated on silicon-on-insulator. Silicon fin waveguides are used to control the dispersion of mechanical waves and eng…

physics.optics2015★ 81 cited

Efficient Photon Coupling from a Diamond Nitrogen Vacancy Centre by Integration with Silica Fibre

Rishi N. Patel, Tim Schröder, Noel Wan +4

A central goal in quantum information science is to efficiently interface photons with single optical modes for quantum networking and distributed quantum computing. Here, we intro…