Photonic nano-structures on (111)-oriented diamond
Date Issued
2014-01-01
Author(s)
Miguel-Sanchez, Javier
Lesik, Margarita
Mille, Vianney
Jacques, Vincent
Tallaire, Alexandre
Achard, Jocelyn
DOI
10.1063/1.4871580
Abstract
We demonstrate the fabrication of single-crystalline diamond nanopillars on a (111)-oriented chemical vapor deposited diamond substrate. This crystal orientation offers optimal coupling of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center emission to the nanopillar mode and is thus advantageous over previous approaches. We characterize single native NV centers in these nanopillars and find one of the highest reported saturated fluorescence count rates in single crystalline diamond in excess of 106 counts per second. We show that our nano-fabrication procedure conserves the preferential alignment as well as the spin coherence of the NVs in our structures. Our results will enable a new generation of highly sensitive probes for NV magnetometry and pave the way toward photonic crystals with optimal orientation of the NV center's emission dipole.
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