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Bright Single-Photon Emission from Individual Tin-Vacancy Centers in Multi-Cone Diamond Waveguides

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11285v1
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:19:50 GMT
Title: Bright Single-Photon Emission from Individual Tin-Vacancy Centers in Multi-Cone Diamond Waveguides
Authors: Pablo Tieben, Jan Rhensius, Takuya F. Segawa, Risei Abe, Konosuke Shimazaki, Shigeki Takeuchi, Andeas W. Schell, Hideaki Takashima,
Abstract summary: tin-vacancy (SnV) centers are particularly promising due to the high emission efficiency from the zero-phonon line.<n>Here we demonstrate high photon extraction from a single SnV center incorporated in a diamond nanopillar.
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Abstract: Diamonds containing color centers have recently gathered significant attention for photonic quantum technologies, including quantum sensing, photonic quantum computers, and quantum networks. Among the various color centers, tin-vacancy (SnV) centers are particularly promising due to the high emission efficiency from the zero-phonon line and due to their long spin coherence times. However, the extraction of photons from diamond remains a key challenge. Here we demonstrate high photon extraction from a single SnV center incorporated in a diamond nanopillar with tapered sidewalls and a multi-cone structure. A sharp emission peak with a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of $6\,$nm was observed at a wavelength of $619\,$nm. Furthermore, the second-order correlation function exhibited an antibunching dip well below $g^{(2)}(0) = 0.5$, indicating single-photon emission. Remarkably, the emitter achieved a high saturation count rate of approximately $9\,$Mcps. These results establish our nanopillar platform as a promising candidate for bright and stable quantum sources and sensors based on SnV centers in diamond.

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