Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

Optical modulators

Cryogenic optical data link for superconducting circuits

Nature Photonics volume 18, pages 306–308 (2024)Cite this article

Subjects

An optical fibre-fed superconducting electro-optic modulator with gigahertz bandwidth and attojoule per bit electric power consumption offers a fast, efficient means to connect superconducting circuits to the room temperature environment.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Fig. 1: Cryogenic optical data link.

References

  1. Shalf, J. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. A 378, 20190061 (2020).

    Article  ADS  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  2. Rupp, K. 50 years of microprocessor trend data. GitHub https://github.com/karlrupp/microprocessor-trend-data (2022).

  3. Holmes, D. S., Ripple, A. L. & Manheimer, M. A. IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 23, 1701610–1701610 (2013).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  4. Soloviev, I. I. et al. Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 8, 2689–2710 (2017).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Schneider, M. et al. Supercond. Sci. Technol. 35, 053001 (2022).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  6. Gambetta, J. M., Chow, J. M. & Steffen, M. npj Quantum Inf. 3, 2 (2017).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  7. Arute, F. et al. Nature 574, 505–510 (2019).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  8. Lecocq, F. et al. Nature 591, 575–579 (2021).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  9. Youssefi, A. et al. Nat. Electron. 4, 326–332 (2021).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Glick, M., Liao, L. & Schmidtke, K. Integrated Photonics for Data Communication Applications (Elsevier, 2023).

  11. Shen, M. et al. Nat. Photon. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-023-01370-2 (2024).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Zhang, M., Wang, C., Kharel, P., Zhu, D. & Lončar, M. Optica 8, 652–667 (2021).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy

    Paolo Pintus

  2. University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Paolo Pintus & Galan Moody

  3. Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Mo Soltani

Authors
  1. Paolo Pintus
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Mo Soltani
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Galan Moody
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Paolo Pintus.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Pintus, P., Soltani, M. & Moody, G. Cryogenic optical data link for superconducting circuits. Nat. Photon. 18, 306–308 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01417-y

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01417-y

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing