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Triggered Single-photon Source based on Photoluminescence of Nickel-related Colour Centres in CVD-grown Nanodiamonds

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We report on the realization of a solid-state single-photon source in the near infrared at room temperature. It is based on the photoluminescence of a single NE8 colour center in a CVD grown diamond nanocrystal. Antibunching has been observed in the fluorescence light under both continuous and pulsed excitation. Our source delivers 30 kcts/s single-photon pulses at an excitation repetition rate of 20 MHz.

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  1. Laboratoire de Photonique Quantique et Moléculaire, UMR 8537, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and CNRS, 61 avenue du président Wilson, 94235, Cachan, France

    E. Wu, François Treussart, Vincent Jacques & Jean-François Roch

  2. Key Laboratory of Optical and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, 200062, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

    E. Wu & Heping Zeng

  3. School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia

    James Rabeau & Steven Prawer

  4. Department of Physics, Macquarie University, Sydney, 2109, New South Wales, Australia

    James Rabeau

  5. Laboratoire Charles Fabry, UMR 8501, Institut d’Optique Graduate School and CNRS, Campus Polytechnique, RD 128, 91127, Palaiseau, France

    Philippe Grangier

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Wu, E., Rabeau, J., Treussart, F. et al. Triggered Single-photon Source based on Photoluminescence of Nickel-related Colour Centres in CVD-grown Nanodiamonds. MRS Online Proceedings Library 1039, 1202 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-1039-P12-02

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