A bright nanowire single photon source

Silicon-vacancy (SiV) centers in diamond are bright sources of indistinguishable single photons. We report fabrication of nanowires coupled to single SiV by deterministic ion implantation, yielding greatly enhanced light coupling compared to SiV in bulk.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Teraji, T., Isoya, J., Jelezko, F., Walsworth, R., Pacheco, J. L., Perry, D. L., Bielejec, E. S., Marseglia, Luca, Saha, Kasturi, Ajoy, Ashok, Schroeder, Timo, Englund, Dirk R., Cappellaro, Paola
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Optical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118425
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0904-6553
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5387-3388
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0544-5263
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3207-594X
Description
Summary:Silicon-vacancy (SiV) centers in diamond are bright sources of indistinguishable single photons. We report fabrication of nanowires coupled to single SiV by deterministic ion implantation, yielding greatly enhanced light coupling compared to SiV in bulk.