Routing single photons from a trapped ion with photonic integrated circuits
Uday Chand Saha, James Siverns, John Hannegan, Mihika Prabhu, Eric A. Bersin, Saumil Bandyopadhyay, Jacques Carolan, Qudsia Sara Quraishi, Dirk Englund, Edo Waks · Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics · 2022
Trapped ions excel as quantum networking nodes. Here, we use integrated photonic circuits to route and directionally switch single photons emitted by an ion. This is a key step towards scalable trapped ion quantum networks.