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most citedStrongly enhanced photon collection from diamond defect centres under micro-fabricated integrated solid immersion lenses

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physics.optics2026

High-sensitivity silicon nitride microring resonator opto-fluidic sensor

Davey O. Armstrong, Sherif Ibrahim, Shirin Naserikarimvand +4

Photonic integrated circuit devices can be used as refractometric opto-fluidic sensors to detect the presence of analytes in solution at low concentrations. In this work, we invest…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Controlled epitaxy of room-temperature quantum emitters in gallium nitride

Katie M. Eggleton, Joseph K. Cannon, Sam G. Bishop +5

The ability to generate quantum light at room temperature on a mature semiconductor platform opens up new possibilities for quantum technologies. Heteroepitaxial growth of gallium…

physics.optics2025

Femtosecond laser-written nano-ablations containing bright antibunched emitters on gallium nitride

Yanzhao Guo, Giulio Coccia, Vibhav Bharadwaj +5

Femtosecond laser-writing offers distinct capabilities for fabrication, including three-dimensional, multi-material, and sub-diffraction-limited patterning. In particular, demonstr…

quant-ph2025★ 11 cited

Enhanced quantum magnetometry with a laser-written integrated photonic diamond chip

Yanzhao Guo, Giulio Coccia, Vinaya Kumar Kavatamane +8

An ensemble of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond can act as a precise quantum sensor even under ambient conditions. In particular, to optimize thier sensitivit…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

Measuring photon correlation using imperfect detectors

Rachel N. Clark, Sam G. Bishop, Joseph K. Cannon +4

Single-photon detectors are ``blind" after the detection of a photon, and thereafter display a characteristic recovery in efficiency, during which the number of undetected photons…

quant-ph2024

Vector Magnetometry Using Shallow Implanted NV Centers in Diamond with Waveguide-Assisted Dipole Excitation and Readout

Sajedeh Shahbazi, Giulio Coccia, Argyro N. Giakoumaki +8

On-chip magnetic field sensing with Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond requires scalable integration of 3D waveguides into diamond substrates. Here, we develop a sensing arra…

quant-ph2024★ 10 cited

Laser-written waveguide-integrated coherent spins in diamond

Yanzhao Guo, John P. Hadden, Federico Gorrini +12

Quantum emitters, such as the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond, are attractive for quantum technologies such as nano-sensing, quantum information processing, a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 1 cited

Determining Strain Components in a Diamond Waveguide from Zero-Field ODMR Spectra of NV Center Ensembles

M. Sahnawaz Alam, Federico Gorrini, Michał Gawełczyk +13

The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has shown great potential in nanoscale sensing and quantum information processing due to its rich spin physics.…

physics.optics2023★ 8 cited

Photo-dynamics of quantum emitters in aluminum nitride

Yanzhao Guo, John P. Hadden, Rachel N. Clark +2

Aluminum nitride is a technologically important wide bandgap semiconductor which has been shown to host bright quantum emitters. In this paper, we probe the photodynamics of quantu…

physics.optics2023★ 6 cited

Evanescent-field assisted photon collection from quantum emitters under a solid immersion lens

S G Bishop, J K Cannon, H B Yagci +4

Solid-state quantum light sources are being intensively investigated for applications in quantum technology. A key challenge is to extract light from host materials with high refra…

physics.app-ph2023★ 11 cited

Polarization study of single color centers in aluminum nitride

J. K. Cannon, S. G. Bishop, J. P. Hadden +2

Color centers in wide-bandgap semiconductors are a promising class of solid-state quantum light source, many of which operate at room temperature. We examine a family of color cent…

physics.optics2023★ 11 cited

Fiber-taper collected emission from NV centers in high- diamond microdisks

Tamiko Masuda, J. P. E. Hadden, David P. Lake +3

Fiber-coupled microdisks are a promising platform for enhancing the spontaneous emission from color centers in diamond. The measured cavity-enhanced emission from the microdisk is…

physics.optics2022★ 15 cited

Bullseye dielectric cavities for photon collection from a surface-mounted quantum-light-emitter

Reza Hekmati, John P. Hadden, Annie Mathew +3

Coupling light from a point source to a propagating mode is an important problem in nano-photonics and is essential for many applications in quantum optics. Circular "bullseye" cav…

physics.app-ph2022★ 76 cited

Room-Temperature Quantum Emitter in Aluminum Nitride

Sam G. Bishop, John P. Hadden, Faris D. Alzahrani +4

A device that is able to produce single photons is a fundamental building block for a number of quantum technologies. Significant progress has been made in engineering quantum emis…

physics.optics2022★ 2 cited

Design of free-space couplers for suspended triangular nano-beam waveguides

J. P. Hadden, Cobi Maynard, Daryl M. Beggs +2

Photonic waveguides with triangular cross section are being investigated for material systems such as diamond, glasses and gallium nitride, which lack easy options to create conven…

physics.optics2022★ 22 cited

Enhanced light collection from a gallium nitride color center using a near index-matched solid immersion lens

S. G. Bishop, J. P. Hadden, R. Hekmati +3

Among the wide-bandgap compound semiconductors, gallium nitride is the most widely available material due to its prevalence in the solid state lighting and high-speed/high-power el…

quant-ph2021

On-chip single-photon subtraction by individual silicon vacancy centers in a laser-written diamond waveguide

Michael K. Koch, Michael Hoese, Vibhav Bharadwaj +6

Modifying light fields at single-photon level is a key challenge for upcoming quantum technologies and can be realized in a scalable manner through integrated quantum photonics. La…

physics.optics2020★ 25 cited

An integrated magnetometry platform with stackable waveguide-assisted detection channels for sensing arrays

Michael Hoese, Michael K. Koch, Vibhav Bharadwaj +8

The negatively-charged NV-center in diamond has shown great success in nanoscale, high-sensitivity magnetometry. Efficient fluorescence detection is crucial for improving the s…

physics.optics2020★ 57 cited

Quantum micro-nano devices fabricated in diamond by femtosecond laser and ion irradiation

Shane M. Eaton, J. P. Hadden, Vibhav Bharadwaj +12

Diamond has attracted great interest as a quantum technology platform thanks to its optically active nitrogen vacancy center (NV). The NV's ground state spin can be read out optica…

quant-ph2019★ 1 cited

Influence of nanostructuring on silicon vacancy center spins in diamond pillars

Thomas Lutz, Tamiko Masuda, John P. Hadden +4

Color centers in diamond micro and nano structures are under investigation for a plethora of applications. However, obtaining high quality color centers in small structures is chal…

physics.optics2017★ 32 cited

Polarized micro-Raman studies of femtosecond laser written stress-induced optical waveguides in diamond

B. Sotillo, A. Chiappini, V. Bharadwaj +7

Understanding the physical mechanisms of the refractive index modulation induced by femtosecond laser writing is crucial for tailoring the properties of the resulting optical waveg…

quant-ph2017★ 84 cited

Integrated waveguides and deterministically positioned nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond created by femtosecond laser writing

J. P. Hadden, V. Bharadwaj, B. Sotillo +11

Diamond's nitrogen vacancy (NV) center is an optically active defect with long spin coherence times, showing great potential for both efficient nanoscale magnetometry and quantum i…

physics.optics2016★ 118 cited

Diamond photonics platform enabled by femtosecond laser writing

Belen Sotillo, Vibhav Bharadwaj, J. P. Hadden +14

We demonstrate the first buried optical waveguides in diamond using focused femtosecond laser pulses. The properties of nitrogen vacancy centers are preserved in the waveguides, ma…

quant-ph2015★ 80 cited

Single-crystal diamond low-dissipation cavity optomechanics

Matthew Mitchell, Behzad Khanaliloo, David P. Lake +3

Single-crystal diamond cavity optomechanical devices are a promising example of a hybrid quantum system: by coupling mechanical resonances to both light and electron spins, they ca…