Advances in metaphotonics empowered single photon emission

Y Kan, SI Bozhevolnyi - Advanced Optical Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Spontaneous photon emission can be drastically modified by placing quantum emitters
(QEs) in nanostructured environment, resulting in dramatically enhanced emission rates due …

Hybrid quantum nanophotonic devices with color centers in nanodiamonds

S Sahoo, VA Davydov, VN Agafonov… - Optical Materials …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Optically active color centers in nanodiamonds offer unique opportunities for generating and
manipulating quantum states of light. These mechanically, chemically, and optically robust …

Large spontaneous emission enhancement with silver nanocube dimers on silver substrates

Y Kan, SI Bozhevolnyi, S Kumar - Advanced Quantum …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoantennas and nanocavities are widely used for at‐source manipulation of quantum
emission based on the well‐known Purcell effect. Here, the configuration is explored …

Generation of radially polarized single photons with plasmonic bullseye antennas

D Komisar, S Kumar, Y Kan, C Wu… - ACS Photonics, 2021 - ACS Publications
Radially polarized optical beams are desirable in many applications because of their
property to generate longitudinally polarized fields when being strongly focused. Single …

Double-Slot Nanophotonic Platform for Optically Accessible Resistive Switching with High Extinction Ratio and High Endurance

S Kumar, RD Mishra, A Kumar, P Babu, S Pandey… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Resistive devices have gained significant research attention in the past decade due to their
attractive potential applications in nonvolatile memory and unconventional computing. We …

Enhanced Plasmonic Trap** and Fluorescent Emission of Nitrogen-Vacancy Nanodiamonds Using a High-Efficiency Nanofocusing Device

B Liang, Y Xu, N Yu, Z Yang, M Wilson, D Xu… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Fluorescent nanodiamonds (FNDs) with nitrogen-vacancy centers are pivotal for advancing
quantum photonics and imaging through deterministic quantum state manipulation …

Fluorescence enhancement of a single germanium vacancy center in a nanodiamond by a plasmonic Bragg cavity

S Kumar, C Wu, D Komisar, Y Kan… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Germanium vacancy (GeV) centers in diamonds constitute a promising platform for single-
photon sources to be used in quantum information technologies. Emission from these color …

Intermediate Field Coupling of Single Epitaxial Quantum Dots to Plasmonic Waveguides

M Seidel, Y Yang, T Schumacher, Y Huo… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Key requirements for quantum plasmonic nanocircuits are reliable single-photon sources,
high coupling efficiency to the plasmonic structures, and low propagation losses. Self …

Single photon emitters coupled to plasmonic waveguides: A review

S Kumar, SI Bozhevolnyi - Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
During the last two decades, many research groups have demonstrated coupling of single
photon emitters to plasmonic waveguides, promising very high emission enhancements, for …

Excitation of hybrid plasmonic waveguide modes by colloidal quantum dots

S Kumar, SI Bozhevolnyi - ACS Photonics, 2019 - ACS Publications
Quantum information technologies will greatly benefit from efficiently coupled quantum
emitter–waveguide systems. Hybrid plasmonic waveguide modes are relatively low-loss …