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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

High-sensitivity magnetometry at room temperature with post-processed optical readout of single NV-centres

Antonio A. Gentile, Raffaele Santagati, Sebastian Knauer, Simon Schmitt, Stefano Paesani, Christopher Granade, Nathan Wiebe, Christian Osterkamp, Liam Paul McGuinness, Jianwei Wang, Mark G. Thompson, John Rarity, Fedor Jelezko, Anthony Laing

Published Jan 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

Optical readout from nanofabricated single NV centres is enhanced via Bayesian inference techniques, to demonstrate efficient magnetometry at room temperature conditions. We achieve experimentally Heisenberg-limited sensitivities O(100 nT s1/2), thus competing with state-of-art cryogenic set-ups.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_si.2019.sm2f.2

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