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Cryogenic optical data link for superconducting circuits

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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.

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Fig. 1: Cryogenic optical data link.

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  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

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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

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