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This research achieves 90% storage efficiency in rare-earth-doped crystals by minimizing parasitic losses through impedance-matched cavities and cryogenic cooling, marking a significant step toward high-fidelity quantum memory. The study identifies atomic-frequency-comb preparation as the current bottleneck for approaching unity efficiency rather than residual cavity loss, providing a clear roadmap for future hardware improvements.
90%-Efficient Optical Storage in a Rare-Earth Crystal with a Low-Loss Impedance-Matched Cavity
arXiv:2609.19807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-efficiency optical storage in rare-earth-ion-doped crystals is challenging because of their typically weak optical absorption,which makes cavity-enhanced memories highly sensitive to parasitic intracavity loss. Here we demonstrate a 90.1(5)% storage efficiency for coherent optical pulses in an impedance-matched cavity atomic-frequency-comb memory based on Eu3+:Y2SiO5. The Brewster-angle configuration of the crystal and fully cryogenic Fabry-P\'erot cavity reduce the round-trip intracavity loss to 0.37%. Quantitative modeling shows that further improvement is limited primarily by AFC preparation and its associated dispersive response rather than by residual cavity loss,identifying the principal requirements for further approaching unity efficiency.
Abstract:High-efficiency optical storage in rare-earth-ion-doped crystals is challenging because of their typically weak optical absorption,which makes cavity-enhanced memories highly sensitive to parasitic intracavity loss. Here we demonstrate a 90.1(5)% storage efficiency for coherent optical pulses in an impedance-matched cavity atomic-frequency-comb memory based on Eu3+:Y2SiO5. The Brewster-angle configuration of the crystal and fully cryogenic Fabry-Pérot cavity reduce the round-trip intracavity loss to 0.37%. Quantitative modeling shows that further improvement is limited primarily by AFC preparation and its associated dispersive response rather than by residual cavity loss,identifying the principal requirements for further approaching unity efficiency.
arXiv:2609.19807 [quant-ph]
(or arXiv:2609.19807v1 [quant-ph] for this version)
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