Optics Letters

Raman-excited spin coherences in nitrogen-vacancy color centers in diamond

Philip Hemmer, Alexey V. Turukhin, M. S. Shahriar, J. A. Musser

Published Mar 15, 2001• 109 citations

Abstract

Raman-excited spin coherences were experimentally observed in nitrogen-vacancy (N-V) diamond color centers by means of nondegenerate four-wave mixing and electromagnetically induced transparency. The maximal absorption suppression was found to be 17%, which corresponds to 70% of what is possible given the random geometric orientation of the N-V center in diamond. In the context of quantum computing in solids, this level of transparency represents efficient preparation of quantum bits, as well as the ability to perform arbitrary single-quantum-bit rotations.

DOI: 10.1364/ol.26.000361

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