Print Email Facebook Twitter Control and Coherence of the Optical Transition of Single Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond Title Control and Coherence of the Optical Transition of Single Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond Author Robledo, L.M. Bernien, H. Van Weperen, I. Hanson, R. Faculty Applied Sciences Department Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Date 2010-10-21 Abstract We demonstrate coherent control of the optical transition of single nitrogen-vacancy defect centers in diamond. On applying short resonant laser pulses, we observe optical Rabi oscillations with a half period as short as 1 ns, an order of magnitude shorter than the spontaneous emission time. By studying the decay of Rabi oscillations, we find that the decoherence is dominated by laser-induced spectral jumps. By using a low-power probe pulse as a detuning sensor and applying postselection, we demonstrate that spectral diffusion can be overcome in this system to generate coherent photons. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f0dcbd37-46bc-465d-8f6e-d7cc11ef0263 DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.177403 Publisher American Physical Society ISSN 0031-9007 Source http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v105/i17/e177403 Source Physical Review Letters, 105 (17), 2010 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2010 The Author(s); American Physical Society Files PDF Robledo_2010.pdf 1.43 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f0dcbd37-46bc-465d-8f6e-d7cc11ef0263/datastream/OBJ/view