Design and fabrication of large-scale diamond quantum memories in hybrid photonic circuits

ORAL

Abstract

A central goal in quantum information processing is the development of scalable quantum processors and quantum networks. Towards this end, solid-state “artificial atoms” such as color centers in diamond are especially promising because they combine efficient optical interfaces, minutes of spin coherence, and potentially very-large-scale fabrication. Here, we describe the design, fabrication, and integration of diamond quantum micro-chiplets containing single SiV and GeV centers with photonic integrated circuits (PICs). A near-deterministic photonic nanofabrication produces unity coupling of emitters to single-mode diamond waveguide arrays, which are subsequently assembled on an aluminum nitride PIC for on-chip routing and manipulation of photons. The combination of these advances allows the construction of a 72-channel quantum memory microphotonic chip. The ability to assemble large numbers of quantum memories with phase-stable PICs enables an architecture for high-efficiency, multiplexed quantum repeaters on a chip.

*We acknowledge support from ARL CDQI, NSF EFRI ACQUIRE, NSF CUA, NSF CIQM, DoD NDSEG, NSF GRFP, IC Postdoctoral Fellowship, MIT Lincoln Lab, NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship

Presenters

  • Tsung-Ju Lu

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

Authors

  • Tsung-Ju Lu

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
  • Noel Wan

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
  • Kevin Chen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Michael P Walsh

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
  • Matthew Trusheim

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Harvard University
  • Lorenzo De Santis

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
  • Eric A Bersin

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
  • Isaac Harris

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • SEAS, Harvard University
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Sara Mouradian

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
  • Edward S Bielejec

    • Sandia National Laboratories
  • Dirk R. Englund

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology