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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Fine-structure absorption spectroscopy of singly-ionized 77Se deep-donors in silicon for chip-scale spin-photon interfaces

Murat Can Sarihan, Michael Coumans, Jiahui Huang, Wei Liu, Ke Tang, H. W. Jiang, Joshua M. Pomeroy, Louis‐S. Bouchard, Chee Wei Wong

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

We examine and identify mid-infrared transitions of 77Se+ deep-donors in silicon via absorption spectroscopy. The optically-accessible Se nuclear spins, with potentially long coherence, can serve as on-chip spin-photon interfaces for quantum communications and repeater architectures.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2022.jtu3b.38

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