Temporal coherence of photons emitted by single nitrogen-vacancy defect centers in diamond using optical Rabi-oscillations

被引：151

作者：

Batalov, A. ^{[1
]}

Zierl, C. ^{[1
]}

Gaebel, T. ^{[1
]}

Neumann, P. ^{[1
]}

Chan, I. -Y. ^{[1
]}

Balasubramanian, G. ^{[1
]}

Hemmer, P. R. ^{[2
]}

Jelezko, F. ^{[1
]}

Wrachtrup, J. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Stuttgart, Inst Phys, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany

[2] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, College Stn, TX USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2008年 / 100卷 / 07期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.077401

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

Photon interference among distant quantum emitters is a promising method to generate large scale quantum networks. Interference is best achieved when photons show long coherence times. For the nitrogen-vacancy defect center in diamond we measure the coherence times of photons via optically induced Rabi oscillations. Experiments reveal a close to Fourier-transform (i.e., lifetime) limited width of photons emitted even when averaged over minutes. The projected contrast of two-photon interference (0.8) is high enough to envisage applications in quantum information processing. We report 12 and 7.8 ns excited state lifetimes depending on the spin state of the defect.

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