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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Circular Gratings for Efficient Collection from Implanted Silicon Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Jiabao Zheng, Matthew E. Trusheim, Tim Schröder, Michael E. Walsh, Camille Stavrakas, Benjamin Pingault, Mustafa Gündoğan, Christian Hepp, Jose L Pacheco, Edward S. Bielejec, Mete Atatüre, Dirk Englund

Published Jan 1, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report a chirped circular nanograting in bulk diamond coupled with implanted silicon-vacancy centers. From simulations we determine 41% low-numerical-aperture collection efficiency, and an expected and measured directionality of ∼30 and ∼5 respectively.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2016.ftu3d.2

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