Diamond Nanophotonics

Abstract

The burgeoning field of nanophotonics has grown to be a major research area, primarily because of the ability to control and manipulate single quantum systems (emitters) and single photons on demand. For many years studying nanophotonic phenomena was limited to traditional semiconductors (including silicon and GaAs) and experiments were carried out predominantly at cryogenic temperatures. In the last decade, however, diamond has emerged as a new contender to study photonic phenomena at the nanoscale. Offering plethora of quantum emitters that are optically active at room temperature and ambient conditions, diamond has been exploited to demonstrate super-resolution microscopy and realize entanglement, Purcell enhancement and other quantum and classical nanophotonic effects. Elucidating the importance of diamond as a material, this review will highlight the recent achievements in the field of diamond nanophotonics, and convey a roadmap for future experiments and technological advancements.

Advanced Optical Materials (2014)

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• The Quantum Internet
• Quantum Computing
• Photonic quantum technologies
• High-fidelity projective readout of a solid-state spin quantum register
• Strong Coupling of a Spin Ensemble to a Superconducting Resonator
• Unconditional quantum teleportation between distant solid-state qubits
• Indistinguishable photons from separated silicon-vacancy centers in diamond
• Stark shift control of single optical centers in diamond
• Engineering shallow spins in diamond with nitrogen delta-doping
• Controlled coupling of a single nitrogen-vacancy center to a silver nanowire
• Low Temperature Studies of Charge Dynamics of Nitrogen-Vacancy Defect in Diamond
• Demonstration of entanglement-by-measurement of solid state qubits
• Fabrication and Characterization of Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Microcavities in Nanocrystalline Diamond
• Polarization-selective excitation of N-V centers in diamond
• Photophysics of single silicon vacancy centers in diamond: implications for single photon emission
• Photonic nano-structures on (111) oriented diamond
• Native NIR-emitting single colour centres in CVD diamond
• Subtractive 3D Printing of Optically Active Diamond Structures
• Single photon emitters based on Ni/Si related defects in single crystalline diamond

Cited by in corpus (5)

• All-optical initialization, readout, and coherent preparation of single silicon-vacancy spins in diamond
• Electron-phonon processes of the silicon-vacancy centre in diamond
• All-optical formation of coherent dark states of silicon-vacancy spins in diamond
• Electrical excitation of silicon-vacancy centers in single crystal diamond
• Enhanced photoluminescence from single nitrogen-vacancy defects in nanodiamonds coated with metal-phenolic networks