Resonant enhancement of the zero-phonon emission from a colour centre in a diamond cavity

• Published in: Nature photonics Vol. 5; no. 5; pp. 301 - 305
• Main Authors: Faraon, Andrei, Barclay, Paul E, Santori, Charles, Fu, Kai-Mei C, Beausoleil, Raymond G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.05.2011; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Applied and Technical Physics; Devices; Information storage; Joining; letter; Networks; Nitrogen; Optical resonators; Photonics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Physics; Semiconductors; Vacancies
• ISSN: 1749-4885; 1749-4893
• DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.52

Integrated quantum photonic technologies are key for future applications in quantum information1,2, ultralow-power opto-electronics3 and sensing4. As individual quantum bits, nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond are among the most promising solid-state systems identified to date, because of their long-lived electron and nuclear spin coherence, and capability for individual optical initialization, readout and information storage 5-9. The major outstanding hurdle lies in interconnecting many nitrogen vacancies for large-scale computation. One of the most promising approaches in this regard is to couple them to optical resonators, which can be further interconnected in a photonic network. Here10-12, we demonstrate coupling of the zero-phonon line of individual nitrogen vacancies to the modes of microring resonators fabricated in single-crystal diamond. Zero-phonon line enhancement by more than a factor of 10 is estimated from lifetime measurements. The devices are fabricated using standard semiconductor techniques and off-the-shelf materials, thus enabling integrated diamond photonics. © 2011 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.
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