Low-temperature optical characterization of a near-infrared single-photon emitter in nanodiamonds

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Siyushev, P ^a   Jacques, V ^a   Aharonovich, I ^b   Kaiser, F ^a   Muller T ^c   Lombez, L ^c   Atature M ^c   Castelletto, S ^b   Prawer, S ^b   Jelezko, F ^a   Wrachtrup, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; DIAMOND NANOCRYSTALS; LINEARLY POLARIZED; LIQUID HELIUM TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MICROWAVE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; NANO-DIAMONDS; NANOSECOND RANGE; NEAR INFRA RED; OPTICAL RESONANCE LINEWIDTH; QUANTUM COMPUTING; RADIATIVE LIFETIME; RESONANT EXCITATION; SINGLE DEFECT; SINGLE-PHOTON EMITTERS; SPECTRAL STABILITY; TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE; ZERO-PHONON LINE;

DEFECTS; DIAMONDS; HELIUM; INFRARED DEVICES; LIQUEFIED GASES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RESONANCE; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 72049133441     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/11/113029     Document Type: Article

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