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Quantum memory is a crucial component for the large-scale quantum networks. Rare-earth-ion doped crystals have been a promising candidate for the practical quantum memory because of its very long coherence time. However, doped ions cause unwanted lattice distortion, and consequently reduce the optical depth and the storage efficiency. The stoichiometric rare-earth crystals have low lattice distortion and high rare earth ion density, and thus are expected to enable high-efficiency storage. EuCl3·6H2O is a promising material for quantum memory applications because its optical inhomogeneous broadening can be smaller than its hyperfine splitting and the theoretically predicted spin coherence time is up to 1000 seconds. Despite the numerous efforts in solid-state quantum memory based on rare-earth ion doped crystals, optical memory and quantum memory have not been implemented with stoichiometric rare-earth crystals yet. Here, we report the atom frequency comb optical storage using a EuCl3·6H2O crystal. A coherence time of 55.7 μs is obtained by photon echo measurements on
$^7{\rm{F}}_0 \rightarrow {}^5{\rm{D}}_0$ transition. The two-level atomic frequency comb storage is demonstrated with a storage efficiency of 1.71% at a storage time of 1 μs, showing the potential capability of optical quantum storage of this material. Based on the analysis of the line shift of$^7{\rm{F}}_0 \rightarrow {}^5{\rm{D}}_0$ depending on the sample temperature, we highlight the challenge of achieving high-efficiency optical pumping in this material, which imposes a limit on the achievable efficiency.-
Keywords:
- quantum memory /
- atom frequency comb /
- europium chloride hexahydrate
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图 1 EuCl3·6H2O晶体, 厚度约2 mm, 虚线内为存储实验所用区域. 晶体的三个轴向标示在示意图中, C2轴沿晶体的[010]的方向
Figure 1. The EuCl3·6H2O crystal used in experiments, with the thickness of 2 mm. The dashed box indicates the area used in the experiment. Crystal’s axes are shown in the lower graph, with the C2 axis along [010] dirction.
图 2 实验装置示意图. 激光器输出的580 nm激光被一个声光调制器(AOM 1)所调制, 并入射到低温系统内的晶体样品(Crystal)上. 输出光场被另一个声光调制器(AOM 2)所调制, 最终由探测器(PD)探测
Figure 2. Illustration of the experimental setup. The 580 nm laser is modulated by an acousto-optic modulator (AOM 1) and injected into the crystal sample which is cooled down to 3.5 K by a cryostat. The output laser beam is controlled by another AOM (AOM 2) and finally detected by a photodiode (PD).
图 3 EuCl3·6H2O晶体的光子回波幅度随时间的衰减曲线. 拟合得到相干时间(T2)为(55.7 ± 2.3) μs
Figure 3. The decay curve of two-pulse photon echo amplitude with time in EuCl3·6H2O. The optical coherence time (T2) is (55.7 ± 2.3) μs by fitting the data to a single exponential decay.
图 4 (a) 153Eu3+离子能级结构; (b)在偏离中心频率位置上制备的AFC结构, 其频率中心为517.14873 THz, 插图为放大的AFC光谱结构
Figure 4. (a) The energy diagram of 153Eu3+. Three beams with center frequency of
$f_1$ ,$f_2$ and$f_3$ are applied in a certain sequence to accomplish the spectral-hole burning for AFC preparation. (b) The prepared AFC structure with the center frequency is 517.14873 THz. Inset: enlarged view of the AFC structure.
图 5 (a) AFC光存储1 μs结果, 存储1 μs时的效率为
$(1.71\pm 0.04)\%$ , 与根据图4(b)得到的AFC参数理论计算值$(1.75\pm 0.11)\%$ 相符; (b)存储时间为0.5—10 μs时AFC存储效率变化, 由四次测量数据平均得到Figure 5. (a) The AFC memory with a storage time of 1 μs. The storage efficiency at 1 μs is
$(1.71\pm 0.04)\%$ , which agrees with the theoretical efficiency of$(1.75\pm 0.11)\%$ , estimated from the AFC structure shown in Fig.4(b). (b) The storage efficiency with storage time from 0.5 μs to 10 μs. Each data point is averaged by four measurements.
图 6 温度导致的
$^7{\rm{F}}_0 \rightarrow {}^5{\rm{D}}_0$ 跃迁频率偏移及理论拟合Figure 6. The line shift of
$^7{\rm{F}}_0 \rightarrow {}^5{\rm{D}}_0$ depending on the sample temperature. The curve is fitted using two-phonon Raman-process model[39,40], giving$\alpha = (4.22 \pm 0.57)\;{\rm{cm}}^{-1}$ and$T_{\rm D} = (144.1 \pm 6.2)\;{\rm{K}}$ for this crystal. -
[1] Sangouard N, Simon C, De Riedmatten H, Gisin N 2011 Rev. Mod. Phys. 83 33
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[2] Briegel H J, Dür W, Cirac J, Zoller P 1998 Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 5932
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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