Atom-Photon Coupling from Nitrogen-vacancy Centers Embedded in Tellurite Microspheres

Yinlan Ruan, Brant C. Gibson, Desmond W. M. Lau, Andrew D. Greentree, Hong Ji, Heike Ebendorff‐Heidepriem, Brett C. Johnson, Takeshi Ohshima, Tanya M. Monro

Published Jan 1, 2015• 0 citations

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A technique was developed for creating tellurite microspheres with embedded nanodiamonds. The whispering gallery mode modulated fluorescence of the nitrogen vacancy centers in the nanodiamonds was observed with resonance Q over 10,000.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2015.fth3b.5

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