Fluorescent diamond microparticles doped glass fiber for magnetic field sensing

Abstract

Diamond containing the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is emerging as a significant new system for magnetometry. However, most NV sensors require microscopes to collect the fluorescence signals and are therefore limited to laboratory settings. By incorporating micron-scale diamond particles at an annular interface within the cross section of a silicate glass fiber, a high-sensitivity and robust fiber platform for magnetic field sensing is demonstrated here. The fluorescence and spin properties of NV centers embedded in the diamond crystals are well preserved during the fiber drawing process, leading to enhanced continuous-wave diamond-magnetometry in fiber-transmitted sensing configurations. The interface doping of diamond particles also leads to reduced fiber propagation loss and benefits the guidance of NV-fluorescence in the hybrid fiber. Using the diamond-fiber system, magnetic field readout through 50 cm of fiber is achieved. This study paves the way for novel fiber-based diamond sensors for field-deployable quantum metrology applications.

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