Deterministic Optical-Near-Field-Assisted Positioning of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers

• Published in: Nano letters Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 1520 - 1525
• Main Authors: Geiselmann, Michael, Marty, Renaud, Renger, Jan, García de Abajo, F. Javier, Quidant, Romain
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Chemical Society 12.03.2014
• Subjects: Antennas; Applied sciences; Collective excitations (including excitons, polarons, plasmons and other charge-density excitations); Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties; Cross-disciplinary physics: materials science; rheology; Density; Electronic structure and electrical properties of surfaces, interfaces, thin films and low-dimensional structures; Electronics; Exact sciences and technology; Fluorescence; Fullerenes and related materials; Illumination; Infrared and raman spectra and scattering; Joining; Materials science; Molecular electronics, nanoelectronics; Nanocrystalline materials; Nanoscale materials and structures: fabrication and characterization; Nanostructure; Optical properties and condensed-matter spectroscopy and other interactions of matter with particles and radiation; Physics; Plasmonics; Semiconductor electronics. Microelectronics. Optoelectronics. Solid state devices; Surface and interface electron states; Trapping; Optical trapping; nanoantenna; NV center; plasmonics; quantum emitter; quantum optics; Gold; Density of states; Vacancies; Nanopositioning; Synthetic diamond; Fluorescence; Quantum optics; Low intensity; Infrared spectra; Electron microscopy; Nanoelectronics; Polycrystalline diamond; Near infrared radiation; Lifetime; Trapping; Near infrared spectrum; Imaging; Illumination; Plasmons; Nanostructured materials; Antennas; Fluorescence microscopy; Nanoantenna

Nanopositioning of single quantum emitters to control their coupling to integrated photonic structures is a crucial step in the fabrication of solid-state quantum optics devices. We use the optical near-field enhancement produced by nanofabricated gold antennas subject to near-infrared illumination...