An integrated photonic engine for programmable atomic control

ORAL  · Invited

Abstract

Scaled atomic qubit technologies require solutions for scalable optical control. We propose and demonstrate a reconfigurable architecture for multi-site control based on holography and integrated photonic circuitry. This integrated circuitry consists of arrays of fast thin-film-lithium-niobate modulators, with visible-spectrum transparency to enable the interrogation of important visible-wavelength transitions in leading atomic systems. Using a prototype sixteen-channel array, we demonstrate techniques for stabilizing temporal and cross-channel noise, for spectral modulation, and for spatially steering the power in each channel toward target atomic sites. We discuss the application of this platform to a homogeneous set of silicon-vacancy artificial atoms in diamond, along with extensions of this prototype system towards implementing a fast coherent display for projecting individual control beams onto thousands of atoms.

Presenters

  • Ian Christen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

Authors

  • Ian Christen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
  • Maddie Sutula

    • Harvard University
  • Thomas Propson

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Hamed Sattari

    • CSEM
    • Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM)
  • Gregory Choong

    • CSEM
    • Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM)
  • Christopher Panuski

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
  • Alexander Melville

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • Justin L Mallek

    • MIT Lincoln Lab
  • Scott Hamilton

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • P. Benjamin Dixon

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • Adrian J Menssen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Danielle A Braje

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • Amir H Ghadimi

    • CSEM
    • Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM)
  • Dirk R Englund

    • MIT
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology