Journal article
Diamond in tellurite glass: A new medium for quantum information
MR Henderson, BC Gibson, H Ebendorff-Heidepriem, K Kuan, S Afshar V., JO Orwa, I Aharonovich, S Tomljenovic-Hanic, AD Greentree, S Prawer, TM Monro
Advanced Materials | Published : 2011
Abstract
Fabrication of a hybrid diamond-glass material is reported, by embedding diamond nanocrystals containing nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers into tellurite soft glass. This material allows the fabrication of diamond photonic waveguides using well-established soft glass techniques, such as microstructured optical fiber technology (the figure is a confocal image that shows color center fluorescence in a fiber). Copyright © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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Funding Acknowledgements
T.M.M. acknowledges the support of an ARC Federation Fellowship (project number FF0883189). S.T-H. is supported by the ARC Australian Research Fellowship (project number DP1096288). A.D.G. acknowledges the support of an ARC QEII Fellowship (project number DP0880466). The authors acknowledge that the original concept for embedding quantum-based emitters in optical fibers made from glasses drawn at low temperatures was also contributed by Shane Huntington, Paul Mulvaney and Simon Fleming. We also acknowledge Alastair Dowler and Roger Moore for fiber drawing, and David Simpson for helpful discussions.