Deterministic coupling of a single nitrogen vacancy center to a photonic crystal cavity

Dirk Englund; Brendan Shields; Kelley Rivoire; Fariba Hatami; Jelena Vučković; Hongkun Park; Mikhail D Lukin

doi:10.1021/nl101662v

Deterministic coupling of a single nitrogen vacancy center to a photonic crystal cavity

Nano Lett. 2010 Oct 13;10(10):3922-6. doi: 10.1021/nl101662v.

Authors

Dirk Englund¹, Brendan Shields, Kelley Rivoire, Fariba Hatami, Jelena Vučković, Hongkun Park, Mikhail D Lukin

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts 02138, USA. englund@columbia.edu

PMID: 20825160
DOI: 10.1021/nl101662v

Abstract

We describe and experimentally demonstrate a technique for deterministic, large coupling between a photonic crystal (PC) nanocavity and single photon emitters. The technique is based on in situ scanning of a PC cavity over a sample and allows the precise positioning of the cavity over a desired emitter with nanoscale resolution. The power of the technique is demonstrated by coupling the PC nanocavity to a single nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond, an emitter system that provides optically accessible electron and nuclear spin qubits.