Carbon Nanotube Color Centers in Plasmonic Nanocavities: A Path to Photon Indistinguishability at Telecom Bands

Luo, Yue; He, Xiaowei; Kim, Younghee; Blackburn, Jeffrey L.; Doorn, Stephen K.; Htoon, Han; Strauf, Stefan

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b04069

Carbon Nanotube Color Centers in Plasmonic Nanocavities: A Path to Photon Indistinguishability at Telecom Bands

Journal Article · Mon Nov 04 00:00:00 EST 2019 · Nano Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b04069· OSTI ID:1577960

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Stevens Inst. of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (United States); Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Stevens Inst. of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Indistinguishable single photon generation at telecom wavelengths from solid-state quantum emitters remains a significant challenge to scalable quantum information processing. Here we demonstrate efficient generation of 'indistinguishable' single photons directly in the telecom O-band from aryl-functionalized carbon nanotubes by overcoming the emitter quantum decoherence with plasmonic nanocavities. With an unprecedented single-photon spontaneous emission time down to 10 ps (from initially 0.7 ns) generated in the coupling scheme, we show a two-photon interference visibility at 4 K reaching up to 0.79, even without applying post selection. Cavity-enhanced quantum yields up to 74% and Purcell factors up to 415 are achieved with single-photon purities up to 99%. Here, our results establish the capability to fabricate fiber-based photonic devices for quantum information technology with coherent properties that can enable quantum logic.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 1577960

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA-5K00-73497

Journal Information:: Nano Letters, Journal Name: Nano Letters Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 19; ISSN 1530-6984

Publisher:: American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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