A nanodiamond-tapered fiber system with high single-mode coupling efficiency

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 10490-10497

  Schröder, Tim ^a   Fujiwara, Masazumi ^b,c   Noda, Tetsuya ^b,c   Zhao, Hong Quan ^b,c   Benson, Oliver ^a   Takeuchi, Shigeki ^b,c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; NANOPHOTONICS; PHOTONS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; DEFECT CENTERS; FIBER SYSTEMS; MICRO RESONATORS; NANOPHOTONIC STRUCTURES; NITROGEN VACANCIES; QUANTUM TRANSMISSION; SINGLE MODE; SINGLE PHOTONS; TAPERED FIBER; TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE;

NANODIAMONDS;

ION; NANODIAMOND; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MAGNETOMETRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IONS; MAGNETOMETRY; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NANODIAMONDS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITROGEN; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS;

EID: 84861169058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010490     Document Type: Article

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