A scalable method for cavity-enhanced solid-state quantum sensors

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Auteurs principaux: Tibben, Daniel J., Styles, Roy, Broadway, David A., Tetienne, Jean-Philippe, Gómez, Daniel E., Reineck, Philipp
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author Tibben, Daniel J.
Styles, Roy
Broadway, David A.
Tetienne, Jean-Philippe
Gómez, Daniel E.
Reineck, Philipp
author_facet Tibben, Daniel J.
Styles, Roy
Broadway, David A.
Tetienne, Jean-Philippe
Gómez, Daniel E.
Reineck, Philipp
contents Photoluminescent color centers in diamond and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are powerful nanoscale solid-state quantum sensors that are explored in a plethora of quantum technologies. Methods for integrating them into macroscopic structures that improve their sensitivity and enable their large-scale deployment are highly sought after. Here, we demonstrate cavity-enhanced photoluminescence (PL) of fluorescent nanodiamonds (FNDs) and hBN nanoparticles (NPs) embedded in polymer-based thin-film optical cavities on the centimeter scale. The cavity resonances efficiently modulate the spectral PL peak position of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in FNDs across the NV PL spectrum and lead to an up to 2.9-fold Purcell-enhancement of the NV PL decay rate. The brightness of hBN NPs increases by up to a factor of three and the PL decay rate is enhanced by up to 13-fold inside the cavities. Finally, we find a 4.8 times improved magnetic field sensitivity of 20 nm FNDs in thin-film cavities due to cavity-enhanced optically detected magnetic resonance contrast and PL brightness. Our study demonstrates a low-cost and scalable method for the fabrication of quantum sensor-doped thin-film cavities, which is an important step toward the development of advanced quantum sensing technologies.
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spellingShingle A scalable method for cavity-enhanced solid-state quantum sensors
Tibben, Daniel J.
Styles, Roy
Broadway, David A.
Tetienne, Jean-Philippe
Gómez, Daniel E.
Reineck, Philipp
Optics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Photoluminescent color centers in diamond and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are powerful nanoscale solid-state quantum sensors that are explored in a plethora of quantum technologies. Methods for integrating them into macroscopic structures that improve their sensitivity and enable their large-scale deployment are highly sought after. Here, we demonstrate cavity-enhanced photoluminescence (PL) of fluorescent nanodiamonds (FNDs) and hBN nanoparticles (NPs) embedded in polymer-based thin-film optical cavities on the centimeter scale. The cavity resonances efficiently modulate the spectral PL peak position of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in FNDs across the NV PL spectrum and lead to an up to 2.9-fold Purcell-enhancement of the NV PL decay rate. The brightness of hBN NPs increases by up to a factor of three and the PL decay rate is enhanced by up to 13-fold inside the cavities. Finally, we find a 4.8 times improved magnetic field sensitivity of 20 nm FNDs in thin-film cavities due to cavity-enhanced optically detected magnetic resonance contrast and PL brightness. Our study demonstrates a low-cost and scalable method for the fabrication of quantum sensor-doped thin-film cavities, which is an important step toward the development of advanced quantum sensing technologies.
title A scalable method for cavity-enhanced solid-state quantum sensors
topic Optics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04760