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Coupling diamond defects to high-finesse optical microcavities
Childress, Lilian - McGill University
Presentation on Thursday, March 4, 2021, noon
Location: Virtual Seminars over Zoom Until Further Notice
Defect centers in diamond can offer atomic-like optical transitions and long-lived spin degrees of freedom. Integrating them into high quality optical resonators opens a route toward realizing a cavity quantum electrodynamics system combining atomic-like coherence with a robust solid-state platform. While approaches based on diamond nanophotonics have been pursued for more than a decade, Fabry-Perot microcavities present a complementary approach that has recently received significant attention. This talk will consider the potential benefits and challenges to open micro-cavities, and examine progress toward coupling them to diamond defect centers.