Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 94, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.121405
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- network GaNeX [ANR-11-LABX-0014]
- Investissement d'Avenir program
- Conicyt-Fondecyt [1141185]
- Conicyt-PCHA Doctoral program [2013-21130747]
- PMI PUC [1203]
- Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan
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Among a variety of layered materials used as building blocks in van der Waals heterostructures, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) appears as an ideal platform for hosting optically active defects owing to its large band gap (similar to 6 eV). Here we study the optical response of a high-purity hBN crystal under green laser illumination. By means of photon correlation measurements, we identify individual defects emitting a highly photostable fluorescence under ambient conditions. A detailed analysis of the photophysical properties reveals a high quantum efficiency of the radiative transition, leading to a single photon source with very high brightness (similar to 4x10(6) counts s(-1)). These results illustrate how the wide range of applications offered by hBN could be further extended to photonic-based quantum information science and metrology.
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