Quantum emitters near metallic interfaces

The work undertaken during this thesis is aimed at studying the light-matter interaction that happens at metallic interfaces. Metal interfaces have been known to modify the photophysics of quantum emitters in remarkable ways which is usually not possible with conventional inorganic materials. There exist distance-dependent coupling mechanisms for an emitting species in the vicinity of a metal interface, which have been explored in three different projects presented here. Combined, these applications have the potential to enable efficient entanglement of distant emitters, thus paving the way for long-range order quantum information processing.