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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Controlled Assembly of an Ultrafast Single-Photon Source

Oksana Makarova, Simeon Bogdanov, Xiaohui Xu, D. Shah, Aleksandr S. Baburin, I. A. Ryzhikov, Soham Saha, Ilya A. Rodionov, Alexander V. Kildishev, Alexandra E. Boltasseva, Vladimir M. Shalaev

Published Jan 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a technique for highly controllable assembly of single-photon sources coupled to plasmonic nanoantennas with optimal emitter positioning on the nanoscale, resulting in fluorescence decay rates beyond 10 GHz in single nitrogen-vacancy centers.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2019.fm1m.5

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