Single-color centers in thin polycrystalline diamond membranes allow the platform to be used in integrated quantum photonics, hybrid quantum systems, and other complex functional materials. While single-crystal diamond membranes are still technologically challenging to fabricate as they cannot be grown on a non-diamond substrate, free-standing polycrystalline diamond membranes can be conveniently fabricated at large-scale from nanocrystalline diamond seeds on a substrate that can be selectively etched. However, their practical application for quantum photonics is so far limited by crystallographic defects, impurities, graphitic grain boundaries, small grain sizes, scattering loss, and strain. In this paper, we report on a single-photon source based on silicon-vacancy color centers in a polycrystalline diamond membrane. We discuss the spectroscopic approach and quantify the photon statistics, obtaining a g(2)(0) approximate to 0.04. Our findings hold promise for introducing polycrystalline diamond to quantum photonics and hybrid quantum systems.
Single-photon emission from silicon-vacancy color centers in polycrystalline diamond membranes / Flatae, Assegid Mengistu; Sledz, Florian; Kambalathmana, Haritha; Lagomarsino, Stefano; Wang, Hongcai; Gelli, Nicla; Sciortino, Silvio; Wörner, Eckhard; Wild, Christoph; Butz, Benjamin; Agio, Mario. - In: APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS. - ISSN 0003-6951. - ELETTRONICO. - 124:(2024), pp. 094001.0-094001.0. [10.1063/5.0191665]
Single-photon emission from silicon-vacancy color centers in polycrystalline diamond membranes
Lagomarsino, Stefano;Sciortino, Silvio;
2024
Abstract
Single-color centers in thin polycrystalline diamond membranes allow the platform to be used in integrated quantum photonics, hybrid quantum systems, and other complex functional materials. While single-crystal diamond membranes are still technologically challenging to fabricate as they cannot be grown on a non-diamond substrate, free-standing polycrystalline diamond membranes can be conveniently fabricated at large-scale from nanocrystalline diamond seeds on a substrate that can be selectively etched. However, their practical application for quantum photonics is so far limited by crystallographic defects, impurities, graphitic grain boundaries, small grain sizes, scattering loss, and strain. In this paper, we report on a single-photon source based on silicon-vacancy color centers in a polycrystalline diamond membrane. We discuss the spectroscopic approach and quantify the photon statistics, obtaining a g(2)(0) approximate to 0.04. Our findings hold promise for introducing polycrystalline diamond to quantum photonics and hybrid quantum systems.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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