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most citedAll-optical nanoscale thermometry with silicon-vacancy centers in diamond

131 citations · 633 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

quant-ph2023★ 15 cited

All-Optical Spin Initialization via a Cavity Broadened Optical Transition in On-Chip Hybrid Quantum Photonics

Lukas Antoniuk, Niklas Lettner, Anna P. Ovvyan +7

Hybrid quantum photonic systems connect classical photonics to the quantum world and promise to deliver efficient light-matter quantum interfaces while leveraging the advantages of…

physics.optics2023★ 18 cited

Enhanced Spectral Density of a Single Germanium Vacancy Center in a Nanodiamond by Cavity-Integration

Florian Feuchtmayr, Robert Berghaus, Selene Sachero +6

Color centers in diamond, among them the negatively-charged germanium vacancy (GeV), are promising candidates for many applications of quantum optics such as a quantum network.…

physics.optics2023

Two-Photon Interference from Silicon-Vacancy Centers in Remote Nanodiamonds

Richard Waltrich, Marco Klotz, Viatcheslav Agafonov +1

The generation of indistinguishable photons is a key requirement for solid-state quantum emitters as a viable source for applications in quantum technologies. Restricting the dimen…

physics.optics2023

Ultracompact single-photon sources of linearly polarized vortex beams

Xujing Liu, Yinhui Kan, Shailesh Kumar +5

Ultracompact chip-integrated single-photon sources of collimated beams with polarizationencoded states are crucial for integrated quantum technologies. However, most of currently a…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Room Temperature Fiber-Coupled single-photon devices based on Colloidal Quantum Dots and SiV centers in Back Excited Nanoantennas

Boaz Lubotzky, Alexander Nazarov, Hamza Abudayyeh +7

We demonstrate an important step towards on chip integration of single photon sources operating at room temperature fiber coupling of a directional quantum emitter with back-excita…

physics.optics2023

Scattering holography designed metasurfaces for channeling single-photon emission

Danylo Komisar, Shailesh Kumar, Yinhui Kan +5

Channelling single-photon emission in multiple well-defined directions and simultaneously controlling its polarization characteristics is highly desirable for numerous quantum tech…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 15 cited

Sub-to-super-Poissonian photon statistics in cathodoluminescence of color center ensembles in isolated diamond crystals

Saskia Fiedler, Sergii Morozov, Danylo Komisar +8

Impurity-vacancy centers in diamond offer a new class of robust photon sources with versatile quantum properties. While individual color centers commonly act as single-photon sourc…

quant-ph2022★ 6 cited

A Quantum Repeater Platform based on Single SiV Centers in Diamond with Cavity-Assisted, All-Optical Spin Access and Fast Coherent Driving

Gregor Bayer, Robert Berghaus, Selene Sachero +8

Quantum key distribution enables secure communication based on the principles of quantum mechanics. The distance in fiber-based quantum communication is limited to about a hundred…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Hybrid quantum nanophotonic devices with color centers in nanodiamonds

Swetapadma Sahoo, Valery Davydov, Viatcheslav Agafonov +1

Optically active color centers in nanodiamonds offer unique opportunities for generating and manipulating quantum states of light. These mechanically, chemically, and optically rob…

quant-ph2021★ 26 cited

Prolonged orbital relaxation by locally modified phonon density of states for SiV center in nanodiamonds

Marco Klotz, Konstantin G. Fehler, Elena S. Steiger +8

Coherent quantum systems are a key resource for emerging quantum technology. Solid-state spin systems are of particular importance for compact and scalable devices. However, intera…

physics.optics2021

A Robust Coherent Single-Photon Interface for Moderate- NA Optics Based on SiV Center in Nanodiamonds and a Plasmonic Bullseye Antenna

Richard Waltrich, Hamza Abudayyeh, Boaz Lubotzky +7

Coherent exchange of single photons is at the heart of applied Quantum Optics. The negatively-charged silicon vacancy center in diamond is among most promising sources for coherent…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 24 cited

Hybrid quantum photonics based on artificial atoms placed inside one hole of a photonic crystal cavity

Konstantin G. Fehler, Lukas Antoniuk, Niklas Lettner +7

Spin-based quantum photonics promise to realize distributed quantum computing and quantum networks. The performance depends on efficient entanglement distribution, where the effici…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Preparing single SiV center in nanodiamonds for external, optical coupling with access to all degrees of freedom

Stefan Häußler, Lukas Hartung, Konstantin G. Fehler +6

Optical coupling enables intermediate- and long-range interactions between distant quantum emitters. Such interaction may be the basic element in bottom-up approaches of coupled sp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 36 cited

Purcell-Enhanced Emission from Individual SiV Center in Nanodiamonds Coupled to a SiN-Based, Photonic Crystal Cavity

Konstantin G. Fehler, Anna P. Ovvyan, Lukas Antoniuk +6

Hybrid quantum photonics combines classical photonics with quantum emitters in a postprocessing step. It facilitates to link ideal quantum light sources to optimized photonic platf…

quant-ph2019★ 1 cited

Nanophotonic approaches for integrated quantum photonics

Stefano Pierini, Mackrine Nahra, Maxime Joos +10

Photons for quantum technologies have been identified early on as a very good candidate for carrying quantum information encoded onto them, either by polarization encoding, time en…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Silicon-vacancy color centers in Si- and Si,P-doped nanodiamonds: thermal susceptibilities of photo luminescence band at 740 nm

Sumin Choi, Viatcheslav N. Agafonov, Valery A. Davydov +2

We have characterized thermal susceptibilities of the spectral band at 740 nm of silicon-vacancy (SiV) centers in Si- and Si,P-doped nanodiamonds over a temperature range from 295…

physics.app-ph2019

Ultrasensitive all-optical thermometry using nanodiamonds with high concentration of silicon-vacancy centres and multiparametric data analysis

Sumin Choi, Viatcheslav N. Agafonov, Valery A. Davydov +1

Nanoscale thermometry is paramount to study primary processes of heat transfer in solids and is a subject of hot debate in cell biology. Here we report ultrafast temperature sensin…

physics.app-ph2019★ 45 cited

Unidirectional single-photon emission from germanium-vacancy zero-phonon lines: Deterministic emitter-waveguide interfacing at plasmonic hot spots

Hamidreza Siampour, Ou Wang, Vladimir A. Zenin +10

Striving for nanometer-sized solid-state single-photon sources, we investigate atom-like quantum emitters based on single germanium vacancy (GeV) centers isolated in crystalline na…

physics.app-ph2018★ 33 cited

Single Silicon Vacancy Centers in 10-Nanometer Diamonds for Quantum Information Applications

Stepan V. Bolshedvorskii, Anton I. Zeleneev, Vadim V. Vorobyov +12

Ultra-small, low-strain, artificially produced diamonds with an internal, active color center have substantial potential for quantum information processing and biomedical applicati…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 44 cited

Single SiV centers in low-strain nanodiamonds with bulk-like spectral properties and nano-manipulation capabilities

Lachlan J. Rogers, Ou Wang, Yan Liu +7

We report on the isolation of single SiV centers in nanodiamonds. We observe the fine-structure of single SiV center with improved inhomogeneous ensemble linewidth below th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 118 cited

On-chip excitation of single germanium-vacancies in nanodiamonds embedded in plasmonic waveguides

Hamidreza Siampour, Shailesh Kumar, Valery A. Davydov +3

Monolithic integration of quantum emitters in nanoscale plasmonic circuitry requires low-loss plasmonic configurations capable of confining light well below the diffraction limit.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 23 cited

Varying temperature and silicon content in nanodiamond growth: effects on silicon-vacancy centers

Sumin Choi, Victor Leong, Valery A. Davydov +4

Nanodiamonds containing color centers open up many applications in quantum information processing, metrology, and quantum sensing. In particular, silicon vacancy (SiV) centers are…

quant-ph2017★ 131 cited

All-optical nanoscale thermometry with silicon-vacancy centers in diamond

Christian T. Nguyen, Ruffin E. Evans, Alp Sipahigil +7

We demonstrate an all-optical thermometer based on an ensemble of silicon-vacancy centers (SiVs) in diamond by utilizing a temperature dependent shift of the SiV optical zero-phono…

physics.optics2017

Excitation of nanowire surface plasmons by silicon vacancy centers in nanodiamonds

Shailesh Kumar, Valery A. Davydov, Viatcheslav N. Agafonov +1

Silicon vacancy (SiV) centers in diamonds have emerged as a very promising candidate for quantum emitter due to their narrow emission line resulting in their indistinguishability.…