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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Measuring the Diamond strain Tensor with Silicon-Vacancy Centers

Kelsey M. Bates, Matthew W. Day, Christopher L. Smallwood, Ronald Ulbricht, Travis M. Autry, Rachel Owen, Geoffrey Diederich, Tim Schröder, Edward S. Bielejec, Mark E. Siemens, Steven T. Cundiff

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

We use two coherent spectroscopy techniques to measure the strain tensor local to an ensemble of silicon-vacancy centers in diamond. Our results provide a possible pathway for using diamond as a tensorial strain gauge.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2020.ftu3d.4

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