May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
345 pages
12h 1m
English
J.M. Smith, University of Oxford, UK
This chapter describes the characterisation of single defects in diamond using fluorescence-based techniques and how it can be used to determine the properties both of the defects themselves and of their local environment. Emphasis is placed on methodologies and aspects of the science that can be applied to a range of fluorescent defects, and which illustrate the essential role of characterisation at the single-defect level in the development of quantum devices.
single colour centres; microscopy; photoluminescence; PLE; pho7ton statistics; photon antibunching; optically detected magnetic resonance; inhomogeneous ...