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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Towards Room-Temperature Laser Magnetometry with NV Centres in Open Fibre Cavities

Sarath Raman Nair, Lachlan J. Rogers, Jan Jeske, Xavier Vidal, Andrew Wood, Fedor Jelezko, Andrew D. Greentree, Thomas Volz

Published Jun 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

Summary form only given. Magnetic sensing with lasing from negatively charged nitorgen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond is predicted to reach fT/√Hz regime even at room temperature [1]. Stimulated emission from NV centres has already been explored as a stepping stone towards such a laser magnetometer [2, 3, 4]. Here we report the observation of amplification on the cavity transmission of an open fibre cavity formed between a fibre-mirror and a macroscopic mirror, loaded with a high NV density diamond sample. On adding green laser light to optically pump the NV centres, we observe amplification on the transmitted seed wavelength close to 720 nm up to a factor around 3.

DOI
10.1109/cleoe-eqec.2019.8872972

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Negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond are promising quantum magnetic field sensors. Laser threshold magnetometry has been a theoretical approach for the improvement of NV-centre ensemble sensitivity via increased signal strength and magnetic field contrast. In this work we experimentally demonstrate laser threshold magnetometry. We use a macroscopic high-finesse laser cavity containing a highly NV-doped and low absorbing diamond gain medium that is pumped at 532nm and resonantly seeded at 710nm. This enables amplification of the signal power by stimulated emission of 64%. We show the magnetic-field dependency of the amplification and thus, demonstrate magnetic-field dependent stimulated emission from an NV-centre ensemble. This emission shows a record contrast of 33% and a maximum output power in the mW regime. These advantages of coherent read-out of NV-centres pave the way for novel cavity and laser applications of quantum defects as well as diamond NV magnetic field sensors with significantly improved sensitivity for the health, research and mining sectors.
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