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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Photon antibunching from diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers inside a dielectric micropillar cavity

Katja Beha, Anton Batalov, Hauke Harms, Christopher Hinz, Tim O. Thomay, Fedor Jelezko, Jörg Wrachtrup, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Rudolf Bratschitsch

Published Jan 1, 2011• 0 citations
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Abstract

Diamond nanocrystals with single nitrogen-vacancy color centers are incorporated into dielectric micropillar resonators. We observe three-dimensional light confinement and antibunching in the photon emission.
DOI
10.1364/qels.2011.qfg7

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