Resolving and resetting the charge environment of single T-centers in silicon p-i-n waveguides

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15993v1
• Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:05:45 GMT
• Title: Resolving and resetting the charge environment of single T-centers in silicon p-i-n waveguides
• Abstract summary: In nanophotonic devices, the optical linewidth is broadened by a fluctuating charge environment, limiting photon indistinguishability for quantum networking.<n>Here, we address this challenge through characterization and suppression of the local charge-noise of single T-centers in lateral p-i-n waveguides.<n>Across 46 emitters this reset narrows the median linewidth 3.5-fold to 0.57(5) GHz, and an optimized emitter reaches 128(22) MHz, the narrowest unheralded linewidth reported for an integrated T-center.
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• Abstract: The silicon T-center is a telecom-band spin-photon interface in a manufacturable photonics platform. In nanophotonic devices, however, its optical linewidth is broadened by a fluctuating charge environment, limiting photon indistinguishability for quantum networking. Here, we address this challenge through characterization and suppression of the local charge-noise of single T-centers in lateral p-i-n waveguides, demonstrating an unheralded method of T-center optical linewidth narrowing. Above-band illumination resets the charge environment, neutralizing the local field and suppressing spectral diffusion. Across 46 emitters this reset narrows the median linewidth 3.5-fold to 0.57(11) GHz, and an optimized emitter reaches 128(22) MHz, the narrowest unheralded linewidth reported for an integrated T-center. The narrowed transition supports coherent optical Rabi oscillations with a coherence time of 20(2) ns. Finally, we perform Stark-shift tuning using the p-i-n junction, and read out the local electric field and the charge-noise width at 15 mK. An analytical model of proximal surfaces, bulk, and junction field effects provides good agreement with our findings. Our multi-pronged characterization of the nanophotonic-integrated T-center charge environment enables future device optimization toward scalable quantum interconnects.

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