Efficient photon coupling from a diamond nitrogen vacancy center by integration with silica fiber

Rishi N Patel; Tim Schröder; Noel Wan; Luozhou Li; Sara L Mouradian; Edward H Chen; Dirk R Englund

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.32

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Efficient photon coupling from a diamond nitrogen vacancy center by integration with silica fiber

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- Efficient photon coupling from a diamond nitrogen vacancy center by integration with silica fiber
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 5, Issue 1, (2016)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
  2.Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, 348 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Author bio：
  
  D Englund, Email: englund@mit.edu
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.32
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- Published：2016-03，
  
  Published Online：08 October 2015，
  
  Received：19 May 2015，
  
  Revised：25 September 2015，
  
  Accepted：08 October 2015
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Patel, R. N. et al. Efficient photon coupling from a diamond nitrogen vacancy center by integration with silica fiber. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16032 (2016).
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Patel, R. N. et al. Efficient photon coupling from a diamond nitrogen vacancy center by integration with silica fiber. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16032 (2016). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.32.

摘要

Abstract

A central goal in quantum information science is to efficiently interface photons with single optical modes for quantum networking and distributed quantum computing. Here

we introduce and experimentally demonstrate a compact and efficient method for the low-loss coupling of a solid-state qubit

the nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond

with a single-mode optical fiber. In this approach

single-mode tapered diamond waveguides containing exactly one high quality NV memory are selected and integrated on tapered silica fibers. Numerical optimization of an adiabatic coupler indicates that near-unity-efficiency photon transfer is possible between the two modes. Experimentally

we find an overall collection efficiency between 16% and 37% and estimate a single photon count rate at saturation above 700 kHz. This integrated system enables robust

alignment-free

and efficient interfacing of single-mode optical fibers with single photon emitters and quantum memories in solids.

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Keywords

diamond nanophotonicsfiber opticsnitrogen vacancy centerquantum opticssingle photon source

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