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- Title
All-optical control and super-resolution imaging of quantum emitters in layered materials.
- Authors
Kianinia, Mehran; Bradac, Carlo; Sontheimer, Bernd; Fan Wang; Toan Trong Tran; Minh Nguyen; Sejeong Kim; Zai-Quan Xu; Dayong Jin; Schell, Andreas W.; Lobo, Charlene J.; Aharonovich, Igor; Toth, Milos
- Abstract
Layered van der Waals materials are emerging as compelling two-dimensional platforms for nanophotonics, polaritonics, valleytronics and spintronics, and have the potential to transform applications in sensing, imaging and quantum information processing. Among these, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is known to host ultra-bright, room-temperature quantum emitters, whose nature is yet to be fully understood. Here we present a set of measurements that give unique insight into the photophysical properties and level structure of hBN quantum emitters. Specifically, we report the existence of a class of hBN quantum emitters with a fastdecaying intermediate and a long-lived metastable state accessible from the first excited electronic state. Furthermore, by means of a two-laser repumping scheme, we show an enhanced photoluminescence and emission intensity, which can be utilized to realize a new modality of far-field super-resolution imaging. Our findings expand current understanding of quantum emitters in hBN and show new potential ways of harnessing their nonlinear optical properties in sub-diffraction nanoscopy.
- Subjects
HIGH resolution imaging; BORON nitride; METASTABLE states; OPTICAL properties; EXCITED states; OPTICAL resolution
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2018, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-018-03290-0