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Room-temperature magnetic gradiometry with fiber-coupled nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

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Publication Date2015-08-03
JournalOptics Letters
AuthorsSean M. Blakley, И. В. Федотов, S. Ya. Kilin, А. М. Желтиков
InstitutionsRussian Quantum Center, Texas A&M University
Citations29

Differential optical detection of a magnetic resonance induced in nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond is shown to enable a high-spatial-resolution room-temperature magnetic-field gradiometry on a fiber platform. An ultracompact design of this fiber-based solid-state magnetic gradiometer is achieved by integrating an NV-diamond magnetic sensor with a two-fiber opto-microwave interface, which couples NV centers to microwave and optical fields, used to resonantly drive and interrogate the spin of NV centers.