Spectral stability of cavity-enhanced single-photon emitters in silicon
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13666v1
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:07:45 GMT
- Title: Spectral stability of cavity-enhanced single-photon emitters in silicon
- Authors: Johannes Früh, Fabian Salamon, Andreas Gritsch, Alexander Ulanowski, Andreas Reiserer,
- Abstract summary: Single-photon sources and spin-photon interfaces have been implemented by integrating color centers or erbium dopants into nanophotonic resonators.<n>The optical emission in this approach are subject to temporal fluctuations on both long and short timescales.<n>Here, we demonstrate that it can be alleviated by integrating the emitters into Fabry-Perot instead of nanophotonic resonators.
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- Abstract: The unrivaled maturity of its nanofabrication makes silicon a promising hardware platform for quantum information processing. To this end, efficient single-photon sources and spin-photon interfaces have been implemented by integrating color centers or erbium dopants into nanophotonic resonators. However, the optical emission frequencies in this approach are subject to temporal fluctuations on both long and short timescales, which hinders the development of quantum applications. Here, we investigate this limitation and demonstrate that it can be alleviated by integrating the emitters into Fabry-Perot instead of nanophotonic resonators. Their larger optical mode volume enables both increasing the distance to crystal surfaces and operating at a lower dopant concentration, which reduces implantation-induced crystal damage and interactions between emitters. As a result, we observe a fivefold reduction of the spectral diffusion linewidth down to 4.0(2) MHz. Calculations and experimental investigations of isotopically purified 28-Si crystals suggest that the remaining spectral instability is caused by laser-induced electric-field fluctuations. In direct comparison with a nanophotonic device, the instability is significantly reduced at the same intracavity power, enabling a tenfold increase of the optical coherence time up to 20(1) microseconds. These findings represent a key step towards spectrally stable spin-photon interfaces in silicon and their potential applications in quantum networking and distributed quantum information processing.
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