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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 18, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/7/073036
Keywords
nanodiamaond; colour centre; silicon vacancy; narrow band; quantum emitter; lifetime limit; fluorescence
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Funding
- ERC project BioQ
- EU project SIQS
- EU project EQUAM
- DFG [SFB/TR21, FOR 1493]
- Volkswagenstiftung
- BMBF
- Carl-Zeiss Foundation
- Wissenschaftler-Ruckkehrprogramm GSO/CZS
- IQST
- NATO 'Science for Peace' grant [CBP.MD.SFP 983932]
- KNOW project
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [15-03-04490]
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Colour centres in nanodiamonds are an important resource for applications in quantum sensing, biological imaging, and quantum optics. Here we report unprecedented narrow optical transitions for individual colour centres in nanodiamonds smaller than 200 nm. This demonstration has been achieved using the negatively charged silicon vacancy centre, which has recently received considerable attention due to its superb optical properties in bulk diamond. We have measured an ensemble of silicon-vacancy centres across numerous nanodiamonds to have an inhomogeneous distribution of 1.05 nmat 5 K. Individual spectral lines as narrower than 360 MHz were measured in photoluminescence excitation, and correcting for apparent spectral diffusion yielded an homogeneous linewidth of about 200 MHz which is close to the lifetime limit. These results indicate the high crystalline quality achieved in these nanodiamond samples, and advance the applicability of nanodiamond-hosted colour centres for quantum optics applications.
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