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IEEE Photonics Conference

Screening and deterministic integration of nanodiamond-based color centers for high-bandwidth quantum photonics

Simeon Bogdanov, S. Sahoo, Jing Jiang, Hana Azzouz, Kieran Loehr, Cris Germany, J. Zhou, Brian K. Clark, V. Agafonov, Валерий Александрович Давыдов

Published Nov 12, 2023• 0 citations
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Abstract

Color centers in nanodiamonds offer light-matter coupling rates in the near-THz range and can be integrated onto any photonic platform. We present a suite of techniques for the scalable characterization and deterministic integration of nanodiamonds, realizing plasmon-enhanced single-photon sources with exceptionally high clock rates.
DOI
10.1109/ipc57732.2023.10360534

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