Optical properties of the nitrogen-vacancy singlet levels in diamond
By V. Acosta, A. Jarmola, E. Bauch, Dmitry Budker. 2010
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We report measurements of the optical properties of the 1042 nm transition of negatively-charged Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in type 1b diamond. The results indicate that the upper level of this transition couples to the m_s=+/-1 sublevels of the {^3}E excited state and is short-lived, with a lifetime <~ 1 ns. The lower level is shown to have a temperature-dependent lifetime of 462(10) ns at 4.4 K and 219(3) ns at 295 K. The light-polarization dependence of 1042 nm absorption confirms that the transition is between orbitals of A_1 and E character. The results shed new light on the NV level structure and optical pumping mechanism.
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Geophysics, Materials Chemistry
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- Properties of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond: the group theoretic approach (2010, background): “The polarization dependence is the same for both types of singlet–singlet transitions, and the association of the near-infrared emission of the NV center with the 1E(ae) →(1)A1(e(2)) transition does not contradict the nature of the emission in the original [18] and recent [37] measurements including”
- Measurement and Control of Single Nitrogen-Vacancy Center Spins above 600 K (2012, methodology): “Under the assumption that the ISC is dominated by single-phonon emission, energies of 17 meV [10] and 15 meV [27] have been inferred from the temperature dependence of the (1)E state”
- Sensitivity optimization for NV-diamond magnetometry (2019, methodology): “…of common-mode noise may include temperature fluctuations, which enter the NV- Hamiltonian via the zerofield splitting parameter D (∂D∂T ≈ −74 kHz/K) (Acosta et al., 2010a; Kucsko et al., 2013; Toyli et al., 2013); axial strain gradients; axial electric fields; and transverse magnetic fields.”
- Magnetic-field-dependent photodynamics of single NV defects in diamond: an application to qualitative all-optical magnetic imaging (2012, background): “Recent experiments have identified two singlet states (1E, (1)A1) [29, 30], whereas theoretical studies predict the presence of a third singlet state between the ground and excited triplet levels [31].”
- Principles and techniques of the quantum diamond microscope (2019, background): “The 1E state is metastable with a ∼200 ns lifetime at room temperature [33, 34].”