Enhanced single photon emission from carbon nanotube dopant states coupled to silicon microcavities

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that integrating dopant states in carbon nanotubes with silicon microcavities significantly enhances single photon emission at room temperature, promising for quantum photonic applications.

Contribution

The study introduces a novel integration of carbon nanotube dopant states with silicon microcavities, achieving bright, high-purity, room-temperature single photon sources on silicon photonics.

Findings

Emission enhancement by a factor of ~100

30% decrease in emission lifetime

High-purity single photon generation with increased emission rate

Abstract

Single-walled carbon nanotubes are a promising material as quantum light sources at room temperature and as nanoscale light sources for integrated photonic circuits on silicon. Here we show that integration of dopant states in carbon nanotubes and silicon microcavities can provide bright and high-purity single photon emitters on silicon photonics platform at room temperature. We perform photoluminescence spectroscopy and observe enhancement of emission from the dopant states by a factor of $\sim$100, and cavity-enhanced radiative decay is confirmed using time-resolved measurements, where $\sim$30% decrease of emission lifetime is observed. Statistics of photons emitted from the cavity-coupled dopant states are investigated by photon correlation measurements, and high-purity single photon generation is observed. Excitation power dependence of photon emission statistics shows that the degree of photon antibunching can be kept low even when the excitation power increases, while single photon emission rate can be increased up to $\sim 1.7 \times 10^7$ Hz.