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Frontiers in Optics

Colossal Bunching in Nanodiamond Cathodoluminescence

Matthew A. Feldman, Roderick B. Davidson, Jordan A. Hachtel, Eugene Dumitrescu, Raphael C. Pooser, Anming Hu, Denzel Bridges, Phil Evans, Richard F. Haglund, Benjamin J. Lawrie

Published Jan 1, 2017• 0 citations
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Abstract

Photon bunching with g(2)(0)>30 was observed in cathodoluminescence from nanodiamond particles evanescently coupled to Ag surface-plasmon polaritons. Comparisons with the photon bunching of isolated diamond nanoparticles point to Ag-plasmon-mediated decoherence processes.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2017.jw3a.1

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