Xenon implantation of nanodiamond films for targeted color center emission at sub-nanosecond time scales
At a Glance
Section titled āAt a Glanceā| Metadata | Details |
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| Publication Date | 2021-06-20 |
| Journal | Optical Materials Express |
| Authors | Oluseye Akomolede, Peter Bermel |
| Institutions | Purdue University West Lafayette |
Abstract
Section titled āAbstractāIn this work, the lifetime of nitrogen-vacancy color centers within nanodiamonds is reduced from 550Ā±13 ps to 297Ā±10 ps through the implantation of xenon. Coupled-mode analysis is employed to characterize the mechanism responsible for the reduction in emission lifetime. The observed spectral lineshape is found to be consistent with a Voigt profile consisting of two Lorentzian resonant peaks at 637 nm and 811 nm that are inhomogeneously broadened by a Gaussian distribution. A convolution of the frequency-domain Lorentzian output, with linewidths less than 1 nm, from the coupled-mode system of equations with a Gaussian with standard deviation of 85 nm is performed to generate the Voigt profile. The shortened emission lifetime is found to be consistent with a coupled mode theory model incorporating coupling between nitrogen-vacancy and xenon-vacancy color centers.