Integrated waveguides and deterministically positioned nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond created by femtosecond laser writing

J. P. Hadden, V. Bharadwaj, B. Sotillo, S. Rampini, R. Osellame, J. D. Witmer, H. Jayakumar, T. T. Fernandez, A. Chiappini, C. Armellini, M. Ferrari, R. Ramponi, P. E. Barclay, S. M. Eaton

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Abstract

Diamond’s nitrogen vacancy (NV) center is an optically active defect with long spin coherence times, showing great potential for both efficient nanoscale magnetometry and quantum information processing schemes. Recently, both the formation of buried 3D optical waveguides and high-quality single NVs in diamond were demonstrated using the versatile femtosecond laser-writing technique. However, until now, combining these technologies has been an outstanding challenge. In this Letter, we fabricate laser-written photonic waveguides in quantum grade diamond which are aligned to within micron resolution to single laser-written NVs, enabling an integrated platform providing deterministically positioned waveguide-coupled NVs. This fabrication technology opens the way toward on-chip optical routing of single photons between NVs and optically integrated spin-based sensing.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3586-3589
Number of pages4
JournalOptics Letters
Volume43
Issue number15
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 1 2018
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Funding. FP7 DiamondFab CONCERT Japan Project; DIAMANTE MIUR-SIR; FemtoDiamante Cariplo ERC reinforcement; University of Calgary’s Eyes High Postdoctoral Fellowship program; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (Discovery Accelerator Supplement, Discovery Grant, Research Tools and Instruments); Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).

Funding Information:
FP7 DiamondFab CONCERT Japan Project; DIAMANTE MIUR-SIR; FemtoDiamante Cariplo ERC reinforcement; University of Calgary’s Eyes High Postdoctoral Fellowship program; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (Discovery Accelerator Supplement, Discovery Grant, Research Tools and Instruments); Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Optical Society of America.

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