Purcell and collection efficiency enhancement of single NV- center emission coupled to an asymmetric Tamm structure

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates an asymmetric Tamm structure that significantly enhances the emission and collection efficiency of single NV- centers in diamond, improving their suitability for quantum technologies.

Contribution

It introduces a novel asymmetric Tamm structure that boosts emission rate and collection efficiency of NV- centers, with improved Q-factor and dual resonant modes.

Findings

Fourfold Purcell enhancement of NV- emission

Fivefold increase in light collection efficiency

Dual resonant mode with high Q-factor

Abstract

The resonant modes associated with engineered photonic structures of different spatial-dimension are essential to obtain bright on-demand single photon sources for quantum technologies. Negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) center in diamond is proposed as an excellent single photon source at room temperature. The possible optical readout of spin states in diamond makes it a good candidate for spin-photon interface. However, the poor light collection, feeble zero-phonon line, low emission rate, and the presence of broad phonon-induced emission limits the use of NV- center in quantum technologies. Here, we present a feasible, easy to fabricate, asymmetric Tamm structure coupled with single NV- center to enhance the emission rate of zero phonon line (ZPL) with better light collection efficiency. The asymmetric Tamm structure shows dual resonant mode with one of the modes coinciding with NV- ZPL wavelength of 640 nm. The quality factor (Q-factor) of the mode is 140 which is far better than the Q-factor of conventional Tamm structure and hence, better field intensity localization. We achieve four times Purcell enhancement along with an enhanced light collection efficiency of five times at 640 nm. The proposed structure is useful for generating bright single photons using NV- center and an efficient spin-photon interface.