Deterministic coupling of delta-doped nitrogen vacancy centers to a nanobeam photonic crystal cavity
- Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)
- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106 (United States)
- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)
The negatively charged nitrogen vacancy center (NV) in diamond has generated significant interest as a platform for quantum information processing and sensing in the solid state. For most applications, high quality optical cavities are required to enhance the NV zero-phonon line (ZPL) emission. An outstanding challenge in maximizing the degree of NV-cavity coupling is the deterministic placement of NVs within the cavity. Here, we report photonic crystal nanobeam cavities coupled to NVs incorporated by a delta-doping technique that allows nanometer-scale vertical positioning of the emitters. We demonstrate cavities with Q up to ∼24 000 and mode volume V ∼ 0.47(λ/n){sup 3} as well as resonant enhancement of the ZPL of an NV ensemble with Purcell factor of ∼20. Our fabrication technique provides a first step towards deterministic NV-cavity coupling using spatial control of the emitters.
- OSTI ID:
- 22395596
- Journal Information:
- Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 105, Issue 26; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-6951
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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