2010/06/30 by Darrick Chang, Darrick E. Chang, Amir H. Safavi‐Naeini +3 · 290 citations
Neuroscience · Physics and Astronomy · #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Optical storage #Optics #Optoelectronics #Photonic crystal #Photoreceptor and optogenetics research #Physics #Quantum #Quantum information #Quantum information processing #Quantum mechanics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Slow light #Waveguide #physics.optics #quant-ph
paper · pdf · open access · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/13/2/023003
published in New Journal of Physics 13(2), 023003 (IOP Publishing) · 18 pages, 6 figures, 5 appendices
arxiv created 2010/11/21 · openalex publication_date 2011/02/01 · arxiv updated 2011/02/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
One of the major advances needed to realize all-optical information processing of light is the ability to delay or coherently store and retrieve optical information in a rapidly tunable manner. In the classical domain, this optical buffering is expected to be a key ingredient of managing the flow of information over complex optical networks. Such a system also has profound implications for quantum information processing, serving as a long-term memory that can store the full quantum information contained in an optical pulse. Here, we suggest a novel approach to light storage involving an optical waveguide coupled to an optomechanical crystal array, where light in the waveguide can be dynamically and coherently transferred into long-lived mechanical vibrations of the array. Under realistic conditions, this system is capable of achieving large bandwidths and storage/delay times in a compact, on-chip platform.