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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.213605
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- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [HR0011-09-1-0006]
- Regents of the University of California
- AFOSR/DARPA QuASAR program
- NSF
- IMOD
- Danish Council for Independent Research-Natural Sciences
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1202258] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We use electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) to probe the narrow electron-spin resonance of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. Working with a multipass diamond chip at temperatures 6-30 K, the zero-phonon absorption line (637 nm) exhibits an optical depth of 6 and inhomogeneous linewidth of similar to 30 GHz FWHM. Simultaneous optical excitation at two frequencies separated by the ground-state zero-field splitting (2.88 GHz) reveals EIT resonances with a contrast exceeding 6% and FWHM down to 0.4 MHz. The resonances provide an all-optical probe of external electric and magnetic fields with a projected photon-shot-noise-limited sensitivity of 0.2 V/cm/root Hz p and 0.1 nT/root Hz p, respectively. Operation of a prototype diamond-EIT magnetometer measures a noise floor of <= 1 nT/root Hz p for frequencies above 10 Hz and Allan deviation of 1.3 +/- 1.1 nT for 100 s intervals. The results demonstrate the potential of diamond-EIT devices for applications ranging from quantum-optical memory to precision measurement and tests of fundamental physics.
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