Jeff Thompson - Quantum technologies with rare earth ions

December 17, 2021

3:30PM - 4:30PM

Zoom Webinar

Add to Calendar 2021-12-17 16:30:00 2021-12-17 17:30:00 Jeff Thompson - Quantum technologies with rare earth ions Series Title: Photonics and Nanophotonics Title: Quantum technologies with rare earth ions Jeff Thompson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Princeton University Abstract: Atomic defects in solid-state crystals are widely explored as single-photon sources and quantum memories for large-scale quantum communications networks based on quantum repeaters. Rare earth ions, in particular Er3+, have attracted recent attention because of the demonstration of extremely large Purcell enhancement in nanophotonic cavities, which overcomes the slow intrinsic photon emission rate. Using this approach, we have demonstrated the first atomic source of single photons in the telecom band, and high-fidelity single-shot readout of the Er3+ electron spin using cavity-induced cycling transitions. Furthermore, we have realized optical manipulation and single-shot readout of multiple atoms with spacings far below the diffraction limit of light, using a novel frequency-domain super-resolution technique. I will conclude by discussing some recent work on coherent control of nearby nuclear spins, as well as a systematic investigation of new host materials with the potential to realize longer spin and optical coherence times. Bio: Jeff Thompson is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. He received his BS from Yale and PhD from Harvard, both in Physics. His work focuses on experimental atomic physics and quantum optics, with application to quantum technologies including quantum communication networks and quantum computing. The webinar recording is available for Institute members. SUBSCRIBE to our email list here. If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Jessi Middleton at middleton.85@osu.edu. Requests made five business day prior to the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date. Zoom Webinar OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2021-12-17 15:30:00 2021-12-17 16:30:00 Jeff Thompson - Quantum technologies with rare earth ions Series Title: Photonics and Nanophotonics   Title: Quantum technologies with rare earth ions   Jeff Thompson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Princeton University   Abstract: Atomic defects in solid-state crystals are widely explored as single-photon sources and quantum memories for large-scale quantum communications networks based on quantum repeaters. Rare earth ions, in particular Er3+, have attracted recent attention because of the demonstration of extremely large Purcell enhancement in nanophotonic cavities, which overcomes the slow intrinsic photon emission rate. Using this approach, we have demonstrated the first atomic source of single photons in the telecom band, and high-fidelity single-shot readout of the Er3+ electron spin using cavity-induced cycling transitions. Furthermore, we have realized optical manipulation and single-shot readout of multiple atoms with spacings far below the diffraction limit of light, using a novel frequency-domain super-resolution technique. I will conclude by discussing some recent work on coherent control of nearby nuclear spins, as well as a systematic investigation of new host materials with the potential to realize longer spin and optical coherence times.   Bio: Jeff Thompson is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. He received his BS from Yale and PhD from Harvard, both in Physics. His work focuses on experimental atomic physics and quantum optics, with application to quantum technologies including quantum communication networks and quantum computing.   The webinar recording is available for Institute members.   SUBSCRIBE to our email list here.   If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Jessi Middleton at middleton.85@osu.edu. Requests made five business day prior to the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date. Zoom Webinar Institute for Optical Science spectroscopy@osu.edu America/New_York public

Series Title: Photonics and Nanophotonics

Title: Quantum technologies with rare earth ions

Jeff Thompson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Princeton University

Abstract: Atomic defects in solid-state crystals are widely explored as single-photon sources and quantum memories for large-scale quantum communications networks based on quantum repeaters. Rare earth ions, in particular Er³⁺, have attracted recent attention because of the demonstration of extremely large Purcell enhancement in nanophotonic cavities, which overcomes the slow intrinsic photon emission rate. Using this approach, we have demonstrated the first atomic source of single photons in the telecom band, and high-fidelity single-shot readout of the Er³⁺ electron spin using cavity-induced cycling transitions. Furthermore, we have realized optical manipulation and single-shot readout of multiple atoms with spacings far below the diffraction limit of light, using a novel frequency-domain super-resolution technique. I will conclude by discussing some recent work on coherent control of nearby nuclear spins, as well as a systematic investigation of new host materials with the potential to realize longer spin and optical coherence times.

Bio:

Jeff Thompson is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. He received his BS from Yale and PhD from Harvard, both in Physics. His work focuses on experimental atomic physics and quantum optics, with application to quantum technologies including quantum communication networks and quantum computing.

The webinar recording is available for Institute members.

SUBSCRIBE to our email list here.

If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Jessi Middleton at middleton.85@osu.edu. Requests made five business day prior to the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.