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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A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01442-x
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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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