Bidirectional and passive optical field to microwave field quantum converter with high bandwidth

Abstract

The conversion between microwave photons and optical photons with quantum coherence is important for quantum communication and computation. In this paper, we report a proposal using an ensemble of atoms coupled to microwave and optical resonators. Input photons to one resonator are converted into output photons in the other resonator without active operation. Usually the conversion is only optimized at certain frequency. In our proposal, we find that the efficiency is almost a constant and can be close to 100% in a large interval of frequency, i.e. a high-bandwidth conversion can be realized with our proposal.