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Room-temperature single-photon generation from solitary dopants of carbon nanotubes

On-demand single-photon sources capable of operating at room temperature and the telecom wavelength range of 1,300–1,500 nm hold the key to the realization of novel technologies that span from sub-diffraction imaging to quantum key distribution and photonic quantum information processing. Here, we show that incorporation of undoped (6,5) single-walled carbon nanotubes into a SiO2 matrix can lead to the creation of solitary oxygen dopant states capable of fluctuation-free, room-temperature single-photon emission in the 1,100–1,300 nm wavelength range. We investigated the effects of temperature on photoluminescence emission efficiencies, fluctuations and decay dynamics of the dopant states and determined the conditions most suitable for the observation of single-photon emission. This emission can in principle be extended to 1,500 nm by doping of smaller-bandgap single-walled carbon nanotubes This easy tunability presents a distinct advantage over existing defect centre single-photon emitters (for example, diamond defect centres) Our SiO2--encapsulated sample also presents exciting opportunities to apply Si/SiO2-based micro/nano-device fabrication techniques in the development of electrically driven single-photon sources and integration of these sources into quantum photonic devices and networks.


Nature Nanotechnology (2015) doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.136
Received 28 January 2015 Accepted 02 June 2015 Published online 13 July 2015

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