Diamond nanocrystals hosting single nitrogen-vacancy color centers sorted by photon-correlation near-field microscopy

2007/10/31 by Yannick Sonnefraud, Aurelien Cuche, Aurélien Cuche +10 · 4 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research #Near-Field Optical Microscopy #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1364/ol.33.000611

published as Opt. Lett. 33, 611 (2008)

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Abstract

Diamond nanocrystals containing highly photoluminescent color centers are attractive, nonclassical, and near-field light sources. For near-field applications, the size of the nanocrystal is crucial, since it defines the optical resolution. Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers are efficiently created by proton irradiation and annealing of a nanodiamond powder. Using near-field microscopy and photon statistics measurements, we show that nanodiamonds with sizes down to 25 nm can hold a single NV color center with bright and stable photoluminescence.

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