Motivated by the success of group IV color centers in nanodiamonds (NDs) for hybrid technology requiring a single photon source, the authors study single germanium-vacancy (GeV−) centers in NDs at room temperature with size ranging from 10 to 50 nm and with remarkable spectral properties. The authors characterize their zero-phonon line, study their internal population dynamics, and compare their emission properties in the framework of a three level model with intensity dependent de-shelving. Furthermore, the authors characterize their lifetime, polarization, and brightness. The authors find a maximum photon emission count rate of 1.6 MHz at saturation. The authors also report a polarization visibility of 92% from the fluorescence light, which potentially makes GeV− centers good candidates for quantum key distribution requiring polarized single photons. The authors show that GeV− centers in NDs presented in this work have a comparable spectral stability compared to their bulk counterpart, which is needed for future applications using nanodiamonds.
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See supplementary material at https://www.scitation.org/doi/suppl/10.1116/5.0035937 for the details growth technique, experimental setup used for optical characterization, the average and standard deviation of the parameters of the six similar GeVs, and the details on the optimization algorithm and calculations of the parameters.
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