Single photons on demand from a single molecule at room temperature

By Brahim Lounis, W. Moerner. Nature, 2000

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Multiphoton entanglement and interferometry (2008, background): “…et al., 2001, 2002; Pelton et al., 2002), nitrogen-vacancy color centers (Brouri et al., 2000; Kurtsiefer et al., 2000), neutral atoms (Kuhn et al., 2002; McKeever et al., 2004; Darquié et al., 2005), ions (Keller et al., 2004), and molecules (Brunel et al., 1999; Lounis and Moerner, 2000).”
Metrology of single-photon sources and detectors: a review (2014, neutral): “Photostability is a serious issue.(62) Recent work has demonstrated quantum interference from separate molecules(63) and improved the spontaneous emission rate.”
Diamond-based single-photon emitters (2011, background): “Most single molecules [14, 29] and diamond defects [30–32] exhibit a metastable or a shelving state between the |g〉 and |e〉 states that is regarded to be responsible for observed photon bunching characteristics (g(2)(τ ) > 1) when the emitter is excited above saturation.”
Large single-molecule fluorescence enhancements produced by a bowtie nanoantenna (2009, background): “In particular, emission decay times as short as 10 ps were observed, which means that a high-emission-rate, room-temperature, single-photon sourc”
Magnetic-field-dependent photodynamics of single NV defects in diamond: an application to qualitative all-optical magnetic imaging (2012, background): “As shown in figure 5(b), a strong reduction of coincidences is observed around the zero delay, which is the signature that a single NV defect is attached to the tip [36].”