Optical repumping of resonantly excited quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride
arXiv:2009.05323 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.044017
Abstract
Resonant excitation of solid-state quantum emitters enables coherent control of quantum states and generation of coherent single photons, which are required for scalable quantum photonics applications. However, these systems can often decay to one or more intermediate dark states or spectrally jump, resulting in the lack of photons on resonance. Here, we present an optical co-excitation scheme which uses a weak non-resonant laser to reduce transitions to a dark state and amplify the photoluminescence from quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Utilizing a two-laser repumping scheme, we achieve optically stable resonance fluorescence of hBN emitters and an overall increase of ON time by an order of magnitude compared to only resonant excitation. Our results are important for the deployment of atom-like defects in hBN as reliable building blocks for quantum photonic applications.
arXiv commentAccepted to Physical Review Applied
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