2017/12/14 by Sofia Pazzagli, Pazzagli, Sofia, Pietro Lombardi +11
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Applied Physics (physics.app-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies #Optics (physics.optics) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1712.05178
openalex publication_date 2017/12/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Quantum technologies could largely benefit from the control of quantum emitters in sub-micrometric size crystals. These are naturally prone to the integration in hybrid devices, including heterostructures and complex photonic devices. Currently available quantum emitters sculpted in nanocrystals suffer from spectral instability, preventing their use as single photon sources e.g., for most quantum optics operations. In this work we report on unprecedented performances of single-photon emission from organic nanocrystals (average size of hundreds \SI\nano\meter), made of anthracene (Ac) and doped with dibenzoterrylene (DBT) molecules. The source has hours-long photostability with respect to frequency and intensity, both at room and at cryogenic temperature. When cooled down to \SI3K, the 00-zero phonon line shows linewidth values (\SI50MHz) close to the lifetime-limit. Such optical properties in a nanocrystalline environment make the proposed organic nanocrystals a unique single-photon source for integrated photonic quantum technologies.