Thursday, January 10, 2013

1301.1939 (Wolfgang Pfaff et al.)

Top-down fabrication of plasmonic nanostructures for deterministic
coupling to single quantum emitters
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Wolfgang Pfaff, Arthur Vos, Ronald Hanson
Metal nanostructures can be used to harvest and guide the emission of single photon emitters on-chip via surface plasmon polaritons. In order to develop and characterize photonic devices based on emitter-plasmon hybrid structures a deterministic and scalable fabrication method for such structures is desirable. Here we demonstrate deterministic and scalable top-down fabrication of metal wires onto preselected nitrogen vacancy centers in nanodiamonds using clean room nano-fabrication methods. We observe a life-time reduction of the emitter emission that is consistent with earlier proof-of-principle experiments that used non-deterministic fabrication methods. This result indicates that top-down fabrication is a promising technique for processing future devices featuring single photon emitters and plasmonic nanostructures.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1939

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