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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Narrow-linewidth tin-vacancy centers in diamond waveguides

Alison E. Rugar, Shahriar Aghaeimeibodi, Constantin Dory, Haiyu Lu, Patrick J. McQuade, Sattwik Deb Mishra, Shuo Sun, Zhi‐Xun Shen, Nicholas A. Melosh, Jelena Vuckovic A

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

We have fabricated waveguides containing tin-vacancy centers in diamond, promising optically accessible spin qubit candidates. The tin-vacancy centers in waveguides display narrow linewidths of ~ 36 MHz.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2021.fw4i.5

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