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Reduced photothermal heating in diamonds enriched with H3 point defects

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Publication Date2022-03-09
AuthorsC. P. Gupta, Anupum Pant, Xiaojing Xia, Robert G. Felsted, Katharina Senkalla
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The H3 center in diamond has been shown to exhibit several promising characteristics for laser cooling applications including a neutral charge state, high radiative quantum yield, and efficient anti-Stokes photoluminescence. In this work, we show that upon excitation with a 532 nm laser, bulk diamond crystals doped with H3 centers emit efficient up-conversion photoluminescence and also show significantly reduced photothermal heating relative to crystals doped with NV centers. These results encourage future exploration of techniques for H3 enrichment in diamonds at high-pressure, high-temperature conditions for the simultaneous anti-Stokes fluorescence cooling and radiation balanced lasing in semiconductor materials.