Coupling of NV centers to photonic crystal nanobeams in diamond.

Hausmann, B J M; Shields, B J; Quan, Q; Chu, Y; de Leon, N P; Evans, R; Burek, M J; Zibrov, A S et al. · Nano Lett · 2013

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The realization of efficient optical interfaces for solid-state atom-like systems is an important problem in quantum science with potential applications in quantum communications and quantum information processing. We describe and demonstrate a technique for coupling single nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers to suspended diamond photonic crystal cavities with quality factors up to 6000. Specifically, we present an enhancement of the NV center's zero-phonon line fluorescence by a factor of ~ 7 in low-temperature measurements.

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