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Single-photon frequency shifting

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A fingertip-sized on-chip optomechanical device offers a controllable way to shift the frequency of single photons in the telecom band while preserving their quantum information.

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Figure 1: Various approaches to adiabatic frequency tuning.
Figure 2: Fan and colleagues' membrane waveguide frequency shifter (RF drive).

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  1. Eiichi Kuramochi and Masaya Notomi are at the Nanophotonics Center and NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0198, Japan,

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Kuramochi, E., Notomi, M. Single-photon frequency shifting. Nature Photon 10, 752–753 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.238

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