Cavity-Enhanced Raman Emission from a Single Color Center in a Solid

Shuo Sun, Jingyuan Linda Zhang, Kevin A. Fischer, Michael J. Burek, Constantin Dory, Konstantinos G. Lagoudakis, Yan-Kai Tzeng, Marina Radulaski, Yousif Kelaita, Amir Safavi-Naeini, Zhi-Xun Shen, Nicholas A. Melosh, Steven Chu, Marko Lončar, and Jelena Vučković
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 083601 – Published 21 August 2018
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Abstract

We demonstrate cavity-enhanced Raman emission from a single atomic defect in a solid. Our platform is a single silicon-vacancy center in diamond coupled with a monolithic diamond photonic crystal cavity. The cavity enables an unprecedented frequency tuning range of the Raman emission (100 GHz) that significantly exceeds the spectral inhomogeneity of silicon-vacancy centers in diamond nanostructures. We also show that the cavity selectively suppresses the phonon-induced spontaneous emission that degrades the efficiency of Raman photon generation. Our results pave the way towards photon-mediated many-body interactions between solid-state quantum emitters in a nanophotonic platform.

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  • Received 17 April 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.083601

© 2018 American Physical Society

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Quantum Information, Science & Technology

Authors & Affiliations

Shuo Sun1,*,‡, Jingyuan Linda Zhang1,‡, Kevin A. Fischer1,‡, Michael J. Burek2, Constantin Dory1, Konstantinos G. Lagoudakis1, Yan-Kai Tzeng3, Marina Radulaski1, Yousif Kelaita1, Amir Safavi-Naeini1, Zhi-Xun Shen3,4,5, Nicholas A. Melosh4,5, Steven Chu3,6, Marko Lončar2, and Jelena Vučković1

  • 1E. L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  • 2School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 3Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  • 4Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  • 5Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
  • 6Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA

  • *shuo@stanford.edu
  • These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Vol. 121, Iss. 8 — 24 August 2018

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