Measurement of the ultrafast spectral diffusion of the optical transition of nitrogen vacancy centers in nano-size diamond using correlation interferometry

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Wolters, Janik ^a   Sadzak, Nikola ^a   Schell, Andreas W ^a   Schröder, Tim ^a   Benson, Oliver ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND DEFECTS; DIAMOND NANOCRYSTALS; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; EXCITATION POWER; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; NANO-SIZE DIAMONDS; NARROW LINES; NITROGEN-VACANCY CENTER; OFF-RESONANT EXCITATION; OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTON CORRELATION; PHOTON DETECTION; SPECTRAL DIFFUSION; TIME RESOLUTION; ULTRA-FAST; ZERO-PHONON LINE;

DIAMONDS; INTERFEROMETRY;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 84872139126     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.027401     Document Type: Article

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