On-Chip Manipulation of Single Photons from a Diamond Defect

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Jake E.Kennard^1,2, J.P. Hadden¹, Luca Marseglia¹, Igor Aharonovich³, Stefania Castelletto³, Brian R.Patton¹, Alberto Politi¹ Jonathan C.F. Matthews¹, Alastair G.Sinclair², Brian C. Gibson⁴, Sthephen Prawer⁴, John G. Rarity¹, Jeremy L. O’Brien¹.

¹H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory & Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol, Merchant Venturers Building, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB, United Kingdom
²National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 0LW, United Kingdom
³School of Physics and Advanced Materials, University of Technology, Sydney, Post Office Box 123, Broadway, New South Wales 2007, Australia
⁴School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia

Abstract. Operating reconfigurable quantum circuits with single photon sources is a key goal of photonic quantum information science and technology. We use an integrated waveguide device containing directional couplers and a reconfigurable thermal phase controller to manipulate single photons emitted from a chromium related color center in diamond. Observation of both a wavelike interference pattern and particlelike sub-Poissionian autocorrelation functions demonstrates coherent manipulation of single photons emitted from the chromium related center and verifies wave particle duality.

BibTeX Record:


@article{PhysRevLett.111.213603,
  title = {On-Chip Manipulation of Single Photons from a Diamond Defect},
  author = {Kennard, J. E. and Hadden, J. P. and Marseglia, L. and Aharonovich, I. and Castelletto, S. and Patton, B. R. and Politi, A. and Matthews, J. C. F. and Sinclair, A. G. and Gibson, B. C. and Prawer, S. and Rarity, J. G. and O'Brien, J. L.},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. Lett.},
  volume = {111},
  issue = {21},
  pages = {213603},
  numpages = {5},
  year = {2013},
  month = {Nov},
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.213603},
  url = {http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.213603}
}