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Highly efficient light extraction and directional emission from diamond color centers using planar Yagi-Uda antennas

Optics 2019-05-10 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Color centers in diamond represent a promising platform for developing solid-state single-photon sources and spin-photon interfaces as building blocks for photonics-based quantum technologies. However, although they exhibit a combination of features that make them so attractive, they also suffer from limited control in their emission properties, such as brightness, directionality, and polarization to cite a few. In this paper we present implementations and the experimental investigation of planar Yagi-Uda antennas in diamond, demonstrating highly efficient light extraction and directional emission from silicon-vacancy color centers created in thin diamond membranes.

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@article{arxiv.1905.03363,
  title  = {Highly efficient light extraction and directional emission from diamond color centers using planar Yagi-Uda antennas},
  author = {Hossam Galal and Assegid M. Flatae and Stefano Lagomarsino and Gregor Schulte and Christoph Wild and Eckhard Wörner and Nicla Gelli and Silvio Sciortino and Holger Schönherr and Lorenzo Giuntini and Mario Agio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.03363},
  year   = {2019}
}