Small Waist Cavity Arrays
Small Waist Cavity Arrays
Arrays of optical cavities offer unique opportunities to leverage the strengths of both atom arrays and cavity QED. We are developing small mode-waist resonators to enter this rich new paradigm.
Approach
- Atom arrays are an emerging platform for exploring quantum information science and simulation. They provide both individual qubit readout and control, and Rydberg-mediated interactions.
- To date, readout speeds and fidelities are limited by the finite collection efficiency of objective lenses; as midcircuit measurement and quantum networking become more important, this needs to change.
- In the Simon Lab we are developing first-of-their-kind cavity arrays that we are strongly coupling to individual atoms in an atom array. This work relies upon a new high-NA resonator design that relaxes cavity finesse requirements from 100,000's to 100's.
Related Papers
Lukas Palm, Bowen Li, Yiming Cady Feng, Marius Jürgensen, and Jonathan Simon, "Enhanced Rydberg Blockade through RF-tuned Förster Resonance" arXiv 2603.07958
Anna Soper, Danial Shadmany, Adam L. Shaw, Lukas Palm, David I. Schuster, and Jonathan Simon, "Stability, degeneracy, and scalability of a 600-site cavity array microscope" Phys. Rev. X 16, 041009
Xin Wei, Zeyang Li, Abhishek V. Karve, Adam L. Shaw, David I. Schuster, and Jonathan Simon, "A 10 Megahertz Spatial Light Modulator" arXiv 2601.08906
Zeyang Li, Abhishek V. Karve, Xin Wei, and Jonathan Simon, "A Second-Order Optical Butterworth Fabry-Pérot Filter" Rev. Sci. Instrum. 97, 023103
Adam L. Shaw, Anna Soper, Danial Shadmany, Aishwarya Kumar, Lukas Palm, Da-Yeon Koh, Vassilios Kaxiras, Lavanya Taneja, Matt Jaffe, David I. Schuster, and Jonathan Simon, "A cavity array microscope for parallel single-atom interfacing" Nature, 650, 320–326
Bowen Li, Lukas Palm, Marius Jürgensen, Yiming Cady Feng, Markus Greiner, and Jon Simon, "A Mega-FPS low light camera" Optics Express 33, 31096-31106
Danial Shadmany, Aishwarya Kumar, Anna Soper, Lukas Palm, Chuan Yin, Henry Ando, Bowen Li, Lavanya Taneja, Matt Jaffe, David I Schuster, and Jonathan Simon, "Cavity QED in a High NA Resonator" Science Advances 11, eads8171
