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Quantum Nonlinear Optics with a Germanium-Vacancy Color Center in a Nanoscale Diamond Waveguide

M. K. Bhaskar1,*, D. D. Sukachev1,2, A. Sipahigil1, R. E. Evans1, M. J. Burek3, C. T. Nguyen1, L. J. Rogers4, P. Siyushev4, M. H. Metsch4 et al.

H. Park5, F. Jelezko4, M. Lončar3, and M. D. Lukin1,†

  • 1Department of Physics, Harvard University, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 2P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the RAS, Leninsky Prospekt 53, Moscow 119991, Russia
  • 3John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 4Institute for Quantum Optics, University Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany
  • 5Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

  • *mbhaskar@g.harvard.edu
  • †lukin@physics.harvard.edu
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 223603 – Published 31 May, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.223603

Abstract

We demonstrate a quantum nanophotonics platform based on germanium-vacancy (GeV) color centers in fiber-coupled diamond nanophotonic waveguides. We show that GeV optical transitions have a high quantum efficiency and are nearly lifetime broadened in such nanophotonic structures. These properties yield an efficient interface between waveguide photons and a single GeV center without the use of a cavity or slow-light waveguide. As a result, a single GeV center reduces waveguide transmission by 18±1% on resonance in a single pass. We use a nanophotonic interferometer to perform homodyne detection of GeV resonance fluorescence. By probing the photon statistics of the output field, we demonstrate that the GeV–waveguide system is nonlinear at the single-photon level.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 223603– Published 31 May, 2017
  • Received 12 December 2016
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