Published January 20, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Tapered fiber coupling of single photons emitted by a deterministically positioned single nitrogen vacancy center

  • 1. Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80799 München (Germany)
  • 2. Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 12489 Berlin (Germany)
  • 3. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen Research Center for Complex Materials Systems, Universität Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg (Germany)
  • 4. Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg (Germany)
  • 5. Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, 1020 Wien (Austria)
  • 6. Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, 85748 Garching (Germany)

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A diamond nano-crystal hosting a single nitrogen vacancy (NV) center is optically selected with a confocal scanning microscope and positioned deterministically onto the subwavelength-diameter waist of a tapered optical fiber (TOF) with the help of an atomic force microscope. Based on this nano-manipulation technique, we experimentally demonstrate the evanescent coupling of single fluorescence photons emitted by a single NV-center to the guided mode of the TOF. By comparing photon count rates of the fiber-guided and the free-space modes and with the help of numerical finite-difference time domain simulations, we determine a lower and upper bound for the coupling efficiency of (9.5 ± 0.6)% and (10.4 ± 0.7)%, respectively. Our results are a promising starting point for future integration of single photon sources into photonic quantum networks and applications in quantum information science

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Journal Title
Applied Physics Letters
Journal Volume
104
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 031101-031101.4
ISSN
0003-6951
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