Technologies for a high channel capacity radio frequency-to-optical atomic antenna

A system for operating a high channel capacity radio frequency-to-optical atomic antenna, the system comprising:

• at least one atomic vapor cell;
• one or more coupling lasers configured to transmit one or more coupling beams through one or more of the at least one atomic vapor cell;
• and
• one or more probe lasers configured to transmit a plurality of probe beams through the one or more of the at least one atomic vapor cell, wherein each of the plurality of probe beams overlaps with at least one of the one or more coupling beams at a corresponding overlap position of the one or more of the at least one atomic vapor cell, wherein the overlap position of each of the plurality of probe beams is different from the overlap position of each other of the plurality of probe beams, wherein the one or more of the at least one atomic vapor cell, the one or more coupling beams, and each of the plurality of probe beams are configured such that absorption of each probe beam at the corresponding overlap position depends on a local radio frequency electric field at the corresponding overlap position.