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Towards Detection of Single Rare-Earth-Ions in a Nanophotonic Resonator

Tian Zhong, Jonathan M. Kindem, Evan Miyazono, Andrei Faraon

Published Jan 1, 2015• 2 citations
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Abstract

We report a scheme for detecting single rare-earth-ions coupled to an Yttrium Orthosilicate (YSO) nanophotonic resonator, which could enable precise optical addressing of individual ions as single qubits for quantum information applications.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2015.fth4b.7

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