All-optical thermometry and the thermal properties of the optically detected spin resonances of the NV center in nano-diamond
arXiv:1502.07035 · doi:10.1021/nl501841d
Abstract
The negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is at the frontier of quantum nano-metrology and bio-sensing. Recent attention has focused on the application of high-sensitivity thermometry using the spin resonances of NV centers in nano-diamond to sub-cellular biological and biomedical research. Here, we report a comprehensive investigation of the thermal properties of the center's spin resonances and demonstrate an alternate all-optical NV thermometry technique that exploits the temperature dependence of the center's optical Debye-Waller factor.
22 pages, 5 figures
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