Optical manipulation of single spins in diamond

Charles Santori; Philippe Tamarat; Philipp Neumann; Jörg Wrachtrup; David Fattal; Raymond G. Beausoleil; James Rabeau; Paolo Olivero; Andrew D. Greentree; Steven Prawer; Fedor Jelezko; Philip Hemmer

doi:10.1117/12.716391

6 March 2007 Optical manipulation of single spins in diamond

Charles Santori, Philippe Tamarat, Philipp Neumann, Jörg Wrachtrup, David Fattal, Raymond G. Beausoleil, James Rabeau, Paolo Olivero, Andrew D. Greentree, Steven Prawer, Fedor Jelezko, Philip Hemmer

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Proceedings Volume 6482, Advanced Optical and Quantum Memories and Computing IV; 648207 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.716391
Event: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices 2007, 2007, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond typically have spin-conserving optical transitions, a feature which allows for optical detection of the long-lived electronic spin states through fluorescence detection. However, by applying stress to a sample it is possible to obtain spin-nonconserving transitions in which a single excited state couples to multiple ground states. Here we describe two-frequency optical spectroscopy on single nitrogen-vacancy centers in a high-purity diamond sample at low temperature. When stress is applied to the sample it is possible to observe coherent population trapping with a single center. By adjusting the stress it is possible to obtain a situation in which all of the transitions from the three ground sublevels to a common excited state are strongly allowed. These results show that all-optical spin manipulation is possible for this system, and we propose that that by coupling single centers to optical microcavities, a scalable quantum network could be realized for photonic quantum information processing.

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Charles Santori, Philippe Tamarat, Philipp Neumann, Jörg Wrachtrup, David Fattal, Raymond G. Beausoleil, James Rabeau, Paolo Olivero, Andrew D. Greentree, Steven Prawer, Fedor Jelezko, and Philip Hemmer "Optical manipulation of single spins in diamond", Proc. SPIE 6482, Advanced Optical and Quantum Memories and Computing IV, 648207 (6 March 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.716391

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