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A Diamond Lens Made Lead Vacancies Ten Times Brighter

One solid-immersion lens also enabled two-photon interference from a single defect center.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-20-016
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Summary

One solid-immersion lens also enabled two-photon interference from a single defect center.

Solid-immersion lenses fabricated on rough, high-temperature-annealed diamond increased lead-vacancy emission by about a factor of ten. Resonant excitation approached the transform-limited linewidth, and one center produced two-photon interference, supporting—but not completing—a path toward network nodes above four kelvin.

Why it matters

One solid-immersion lens also enabled two-photon interference from a single defect center.

Limits and context

  • Resonant excitation approached the transform-limited linewidth, and one center produced two-photon interference, supporting—but not completing—a path toward network nodes above four kelvin.

Key claims

  1. One solid-immersion lens also enabled two-photon interference from a single defect center.

    Qualification: Resonant excitation approached the transform-limited linewidth, and one center produced two-photon interference, supporting—but not completing—a path toward network nodes above four kelvin.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-20-018

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.19220arXiv · primary research

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