Bidirectional Microwave-optical Transduction Based on Integration: Acknowledgments

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• Introduction

• Results

• A. Physics and design

• B. Device characterization

• C. Bidirectional microwave-optical transduction

• D. Pulsed transduction

• Discussion

• Acknowledgments

• Appendix A: Theory

• Appendix B: Fabrication process flow

• Appendix C: Optical characterization

• Appendix D: Characterization of acoustic resonances

• Appendix E: Characterization of bidirectional transduction

• Appendix F: Optimization of optical extraction efficiency

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors would like to thank Amirali Arabmoheghi, Nils Johan Engelsen and Junyin Zhang for experimental assistance and fruitful discussions. This work was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under award no. FA8655-20-1-7009, Swiss National Science Foundation under grant agreement no. 204927, and European Research Council (ERC) under the EU H2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement no. 835329 (ExCOM-cCEO). This work was further supported by United States Air Force Research Laboratory Award no. FA8750-21-2-0500, as well as United States National Science Foundation’s International Collaboration Supplements in Quantum Information Science and Engineering Research for RAISE-TAQS Award no. 18-39164. A.S. acknowledges support from the European Space Technology Centre with ESA Contract No. 4000135357/21/NL/GLC/my. Samples were fabricated in the Center of MicroNanoTechnology (CMi) at EPFL and Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University.

AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

T.B. designed the device. R.N.W, A.A. and H.T. fabricated the device. T.B., A.S. and W.K. conducted the experiments. T.B. and W.K. wrote the paper with input from all authors. T.J.K. and S.A.B. supervised the project.

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