Coherent characterisation of a single molecule in a photonic black box

Extinction spectroscopy is a powerful tool for demonstrating the coupling of a single quantum emitter to a photonic structure. However, it can be challenging in all but the simplest of geometries to deduce an accurate value of the coupling efficiency from the measured spectrum. Here we develop a the...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature communications 2021-01, Vol.12 (1), p.706-706, Article 706
Hauptverfasser: Boissier, Sebastien, Schofield, Ross C., Jin, Lin, Ovvyan, Anna, Nur, Salahuddin, Koppens, Frank H. L., Toninelli, Costanza, Pernice, Wolfram H. P., Major, Kyle D., Hinds, E. A., Clark, Alex S.
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Zusammenfassung:Extinction spectroscopy is a powerful tool for demonstrating the coupling of a single quantum emitter to a photonic structure. However, it can be challenging in all but the simplest of geometries to deduce an accurate value of the coupling efficiency from the measured spectrum. Here we develop a theoretical framework to deduce the coupling efficiency from the measured transmission and reflection spectra without precise knowledge of the photonic environment. We then consider the case of a waveguide interrupted by a transverse cut in which an emitter is placed. We apply that theory to a silicon nitride waveguide interrupted by a gap filled with anthracene that is doped with dibenzoterrylene molecules. We describe the fabrication of these devices, and experimentally characterise the waveguide coupling of a single molecule in the gap. The authors develop a method to measure the coupling between a single photon source and any arbitrary photonic structure having constant density of electromagnetic states over the linewidth of the emitter. They demonstrate this method by an experiment on a single molecule coupled to an interrupted nanophotonic waveguide.
ISSN:2041-1723
2041-1723
DOI:10.1038/s41467-021-20915-z