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Shifting colors for on-chip photonics: On-chip frequency shifters in the gigahertz range could be used in next generation quantum computers and networks -- ScienceDaily
Science News from research organizations 1 . 2 . Shifting colors for on-chip photonics . On-chip frequency shifters in the gigahertz range could be used in next generation quantum computers and networks . Date: November 24, 2021 Source: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Summary: Researchers have developed highly efficient, on-chip frequency shifters that can convert light in the gigahertz frequency range. The frequency shifters are easily controlled, using continuous and single-tone microwaves. Share: FULL STORY The ability to precisely control and change properties of a photon, including polarization, position in space, and arrival time, gave rise to a wide range of communication technologies we use today, including the Internet. The next generation of photonic technologies, such as photonic quantum networks and computers, will require even more control over the properties of a photon. advertisement One of the hardest properties to change is a photon's color, otherwise known as its frequency, because changing the frequency of a photon means changing its energy. Today, most frequency shifters are either too inefficient, losing a lot of light in the conversion process, or they can't convert light in the gigahertz range, which is where the most important frequencies for communications, computing, and other applications are found. Now, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed highly efficient, on-chip frequency shifters that can convert light in the gigahertz frequency range. The frequency shifters are easily controlled, using continuous and single-tone microwaves. "Our frequency shifters could become a fundamental building block for high-speed, large-scale classical communication systems as well as emerging photonic quantum computers," said Marko Lon?ar, the Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering and senior author of the paper. The paper outlines two types of on-chip frequency shifter -- one that can covert one color to another, using a shift of a few dozen gigahertz, and another that can cascade multiple shifts, a shift of more than 100 gigahertz. advertisement Each device is built on the lithium niobate platform pioneered by Lon?ar and his lab. Lithium niobate can efficiently convert electronic signals into optical signal but was long considered by many in the field to be difficult to work with on small scales. In previous research, Lon?ar and his team demonstrated a technique to fabricate high-performance lithium niobate microstructures using standard plasma etching to physically sculpt microresonators in thin lithium niobate films. Here, using the same technique, Lon?ar and his team etched coupled ring-resonators and waveguides on thin-film lithium niobate. In the first device, two coupled resonators form a figure eight-like structure. Input light travels from the waveguide through the resonators in a figure eight pattern, entering as one color and emerging as another. This device provides frequency shifts as high as 28 gigahertz with about 90% efficiency. It can also be reconfigured as tunable frequency-domain beam splitters, where a beam of one frequency gets split into two beams of another frequency. The second device uses three coupled resonators: a small ring resonator, a long oval resonator called a racetrack resonator, and a rectangular-shaped resonator. As light speeds around the racetrack resonator, it cascades into higher and higher frequencies, resulting in a shift as high as 120 gigahertz. "We are able to achieve this magnitude of frequency shift using only a single, 30-gigahertz microwave signal," said Yaowen Hu, a research assistant at SEAS and first author of the paper. "This is a completely new type of photonic device. Previous attempts to shift frequencies by amounts larger than 100 gigahertz have been very hard and expensive, requiring an equally large microwave signal." "This work is made possible by all of our previous developments in integrated lithium niobate photonics," said Lon?ar. "The ability to process information in the frequency domain in an efficient, compact, and scalable fashion has the potential to significantly reduce the expense and resource requirements for large-scale photonic circuits, including quantum computing, telecommunications, radar, optical signal processing and spectroscopy." Harvard's Office of Technology Development has protected the intellectual property associated with this project and is pursuing commercialization opportunities. The research is co-authored by Mengjie Yu, Di Zhu, Neil Sinclair, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, Linbo Shao, Jeffrey Holzgrafe, Eric Puma and Mian Zhang. It was supported in part by the US Office of Naval Research under grant QOMAND N00014-15-1-2761, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under grants FA9550‐19‐1‐0310 and FA9550-20-1-0105, the National Science Foundation, under grants ECCS-1839197, ECCS-1541959, PFI-TT IIP-1827720, Army Research Office under grants W911NF2010248, and Department of Energy under grants HEADS-QON DE-SC0020376. make a difference: sponsored opportunity Story Source: Materials provided by Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences . Original written by Leah Burrows. Note: Content may be edited for style and length. Journal Reference : Yaowen Hu, Mengjie Yu, Di Zhu, Neil Sinclair, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, Linbo Shao, Jeffrey Holzgrafe, Eric Puma, Mian Zhang, Marko Lon?ar. On-chip electro-optic frequency shifters and beam splitters . Nature , 2021; 599 (7886): 587 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03999-x . Cite This Page : MLA . APA . Chicago . Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. "Shifting colors for on-chip photonics: On-chip frequency shifters in the gigahertz range could be used in next generation quantum computers and networks." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 24 November 2021. . Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. (2021, November 24). Shifting colors for on-chip photonics: On-chip frequency shifters in the gigahertz range could be used in next generation quantum computers and networks. ScienceDaily . Retrieved November 29, 2021 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211124153925.htm Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. "Shifting colors for on-chip photonics: On-chip frequency shifters in the gigahertz range could be used in next generation quantum computers and networks." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211124153925.htm (accessed November 29, 2021). RELATED TOPICS Matter & Energy Physics . Medical Technology . Optics . Batteries . Computers & Math Spintronics Research . Computers and Internet . Distributed Computing . Information Technology . advertisement RELATED TERMS Microwave . Radio . Electromagnetic spectrum . Capacitor . Photoelectric effect . Spectroscopy . Hertz . Ultrasound . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . RELATED STORIES Laser Technology: The Turbulence and the Comb . June 18, 2020 ? While the light of an ordinary laser only has one single, well-defined wavelength, a so-called ''frequency comb'' consists of different light frequencies, which are precisely arranged at regular ... On-Chip, Electronically Tunable Frequency Comb . 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