Purcell-enhanced emissions from diamond color centers in slow light photonic crystal waveguides

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01149v1
• Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 03:54:42 GMT
• Title: Purcell-enhanced emissions from diamond color centers in slow light photonic crystal waveguides
• Authors: Sophie W. Ding, Chang Jin, Kazuhiro Kuruma, Xinghan Guo, Michael Haas, Boris Korzh, Andrew Beyer, Matt Shaw, Neil Sinclair, David D. Awschalom, F. Joseph Heremans, Nazar Delegan, Alexander A. High, Marko Loncar,
• Abstract summary: Quantum memories based on emitters with optically addressable spins rely on efficient photonic interfaces.<n>These approaches require nearly perfect spectral and spatial overlap between the cavity mode and quantum emitter.<n>We demonstrate diamond slow light photonic crystal (PhC) waveguides that enable broadband optical coupling to embedded silicon-vacancy (SiV) color centers.
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• Abstract: Quantum memories based on emitters with optically addressable spins rely on efficient photonic interfaces, often implemented as nanophotonic cavities with ideally narrow spectral linewidths and small mode volumes. However, these approaches require nearly perfect spectral and spatial overlap between the cavity mode and quantum emitter, which can be challenging. This is especially true in the case of solid-state quantum emitters that are often randomly positioned and can suffer from significant inhomogeneous broadening. An alternative approach to mitigate these challenges is to use slow-light waveguides that can enhance light-matter interaction across large optical bandwidths and large areas. Here, we demonstrate diamond slow light photonic crystal (PhC) waveguides that enable broadband optical coupling to embedded silicon-vacancy (SiV) color centers. We take advantage of the recently demonstrated thin-film diamond photonic platform to fabricate fully suspended two-dimensional PhC waveguides. Using this approach, we demonstrate waveguide modes with high group indices up to 70 and observe Purcell-enhanced emissions of the SiVs coupled to the waveguide mode. Our approach represents a practical diamond platform for robust spin-photon interfaces with color centers.

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