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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Strong Cavity Enhancement of Spontaneous Emission from Silicon-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Jingyuan Linda Zhang, Shuo Sun, Michael J. Burek, Constantin Dory, Yan‐Kai Tzeng, Kevin A. Fischer, Yousif Kelaita, Konstantinos G. Lagoudakis, Marina Radulaski, Zhi‐Xun Shen, Nicholas A. Melosh, Steven Chu, Marko Lončar, Jelena Vuckovic A

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate strong enhancement of spontaneous emission of a single silicon-vacancy (SiV−) center in diamond embedded in a monolithic optical cavity, with 10-fold lifetime reduction and 42-fold enhancement in emission intensity under resonant condition.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2018.ftu3h.5

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