Efficient coupling of emission of embedded single photon sources within optical fibres

M. Henderson, Shahraam Afshar Vahid, Andrew D. Greentree, Heike Ebendorff‐Heidepriem, Tanya M. Monro

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations

Abstract

We investigate the coupling of single photon emission from diamond colour centres embedded within the fibre core into the fibre’s guided modes. By approximating diamond colour centre emission as a dipole, we investigate the capture power for different core sizes and for various locations and orientations of the emitting dipole. We then use finite-difference time domain methods to check predictions of this calculation.

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