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Efficient Extraction of Zero-Phonon-Line Photons from Single Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in an Integrated GaP-on-Diamond Platform

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Publication Date2016-07-29
JournalPhysical Review Applied
AuthorsMichael Gould, Emma R. Schmidgall, Shabnam Dadgostar, Fariba Hatami, Kai‐Mei C. Fu
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington, Humboldt-UniversitƤt zu Berlin
Citations71

Scaling beyond two-node quantum networks using nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers\nin diamond is limited by the low probability of collecting zero phonon line\n(ZPL) photons from single centers. Here, we demonstrate GaP-on-diamond disk\nresonators which resonantly couple ZPL photons from single NV centers to\nsingle-mode waveguides. In these devices, the probability of a single NV center\nemitting a ZPL photon into the guided waveguide mode after optical excitation\ncan reach 9%, due to a combination of resonant enhancement of the ZPL emission\nand efficient coupling between the resonator and waveguide. We verify the\nsingle-photon nature of the emission and experimentally demonstrate both high\nin-waveguide photon numbers and substantial Purcell enhancement for a set of\ndevices. These devices may enable scalable integrated quantum networks based on\nNV centers.\n