Nanophotonic quantum sensing with engineered spin-optic coupling

Abstract

Nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond provide a spin-based qubit system with long coherence time even at room temperature, making them suitable ambient-condition quantum sensors for quantities including electromagnetic fields, temperature, and rotation. The optically addressable level structures of NV spins allow transduction of spin information onto light-field intensity. The sub-optimal readout fidelity of conventional fluorescence measurement remains a significant drawback for room-temperature ensemble sensing. Here, we discuss nanophotonic interfaces that provide opportunities to achieve near-unity readout fidelity based on IR absorption via resonantly enhanced spin-optic coupling. Spin-coupled resonant nanophotonic devices are projected to particularly benefit applications that utilize micro- to nanoscale sensing volume and to outperform present methods in their volume-normalized sensitivity.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jan 09, 2023
Source ID
10.1515/nanoph-2022-0682

Entities

People

  • Claude E. Shannon
  • Dirk R. Englund
  • Hanfeng Wang
  • Hyeongrak Choi
  • Laura Kim
  • Matthew E. Trusheim

Organizations

  • Analog Devices
  • Army Research Office
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • National Science Foundation
  • United States Army Research Laboratory
  • University of California

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Science - Quantum Dots