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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR)

Diamond in fibre magnetometry: understanding the effects of step-index fibre design on dipole coupling

Shuo Li, Dongbi Bai, Andrew D. Greentree, Scott B. Foster, Heike Ebendorff‐Heidepriem, Shahraam Afshar V., Brant C. Gibson

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

Hybrid diamond-fibre systems are interesting as robust platforms for magnetometry. Here we model the coupling between diamond fluorescent emitters and guided fibre modes for three core-cladding ratios, and varying core diameter to inform our experimental investigations.
DOI
10.1364/cleopr.2020.c7h_4

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