Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Stimulated emission from nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond

  • Jan Jeske,
  • Desmond W. M. Lau,
  • Xavier Vidal,
  • Liam P. McGuinness,
  • Philipp Reineck,
  • Brett C. Johnson,
  • Marcus W. Doherty,
  • Jeffrey C. McCallum,
  • Shinobu Onoda,
  • Fedor Jelezko,
  • Takeshi Ohshima,
  • Thomas Volz,
  • Jared H. Cole,
  • Brant C. Gibson,
  • Andrew D. Greentree

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14000
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Here Jeskeet al. show both theoretical and experimental evidence for stimulated emission from negatively charged nitrogen vacancy centres using light in the phonon sidebands around 700 nm, demonstrating its suitability as a laser medium.