Nano-manipulation of diamond-based single photon sources

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 11287-11293

  Ampem Lassen, E ^a   Simpson, D A ^a   Gibson, B C ^a   Trpkovski, S ^a   Hossain, F M ^a   Huntington, S T ^a   Ganesan, K ^a   Hollenberg, L C L ^a   Prawer, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

(160.2220) Defect center materials; (160.4760) Optical properties; (230.0230) Optical devices; (230.6080) Sources; (270.0270) Quantum optics; (270.5290) Photon statistics

Indexed keywords

DIAMONDS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; MANIPULATORS; MICROMANIPULATORS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL FIBERS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; POINT DEFECTS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DEFECT CENTERS; DIAMOND CRYSTALS; EMISSION PROPERTIES; NANOMANIPULATIONS; NITROGEN VACANCIES; OPTICAL FIBRE PROBES; PHOTON STATISTICS; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

DIAMOND; ION; NITROGEN; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DIAMOND; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IONS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITROGEN; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SILICON; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67650547833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.011287     Document Type: Article

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