Metal nanostructures can be used to harvest and guide the emission of single photon emitters on-chip via surface plasmon polaritons. In order to develop and characterize photonic devices based on emitter-plasmon hybrid structures a deterministic and scalable fabrication method for such structures is desirable. Here we demonstrate deterministic and scalable top-down fabrication of metal wires onto preselected nitrogen vacancy centers in nanodiamonds using clean room nano-fabrication methods. We observe a life-time reduction of the emitter emission that is consistent with earlier proof-of-principle experiments that used non-deterministic fabrication methods. This result indicates that top-down fabrication is a promising technique for processing future devices featuring single photon emitters and plasmonic nanostructures.
@article{arxiv.1301.1939,
title = {Top-down fabrication of plasmonic nanostructures for deterministic coupling to single quantum emitters},
author = {Wolfgang Pfaff and Arthur Vos and Ronald Hanson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.1939},
year = {2013}
}