2014/08/08 by Janine Riedrich‐Möller, Janine Riedrich-Möller, Carsten Arend +9 · 4 citations
Chemistry · Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Center (category theory) #Chemistry #Condensed matter physics #Coupling (piping) #Crystallography #Diamond #Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research #Materials science #Nitrogen-vacancy center #Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies #Optics #Optoelectronics #Photonic Crystals and Applications #Photonic crystal #Physics #Silicon #Vacancy defect #physics.optics #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1021/nl502327b
published as Nano Letters 14, 5281-5287 (2014)
arxiv created 2014/08/08 · openalex publication_date 2014/08/11 · arxiv updated 2014/09/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Deterministic coupling of single solid-state emitters to nanocavities is the key for integrated quantum information devices. We here fabricate a photonic crystal cavity around a preselected single silicon-vacancy color center in diamond and demonstrate modification of the emitters internal population dynamics and radiative quantum efficiency. The controlled, room-temperature cavity coupling gives rise to a resonant Purcell enhancement of the zero-phonon transition by a factor of 19, coming along with a 2.5-fold reduction of the emitter's lifetime.