Speaker
Mr
Turner Silverthorne
(IQC, University of Waterloo)
Description
The miniaturization of optically addressable ion traps for the goal of scalable quantum information processing has led to an increased interest in finding a balance between ion and photon confinement.
We propose a radio-frequency ion trap integrated with an optical cavity in which the needle electrodes consist of a pair of tapered metal-coated optical fibers capped with semiconductor metasurfaces designed to act as high-reflectivity confocal mirrors. We present numerical simulations of the ion-trapping dynamics in this system and discuss the outlooks for achieving the strong-coupling regime for the ion-photon interaction inside the cavity formed by the two metasurface mirrors.
Author
Mr
Turner Silverthorne
(IQC, University of Waterloo)
Co-author
Prof.
Michal Bajcsy
(University of Waterloo)
