Nanowires supporting propagating surface plasmons can function as nanowaveguides to
realize the light guiding with field confinement beyond the diffraction limit, providing …

The burgeoning field of nanophotonics has grown to be a major research area, primarily
because of the ability to control and manipulate single quantum systems (emitters) and …

During the last two decades, many research groups have demonstrated coupling of single
photon emitters to plasmonic waveguides, promising very high emission enhancements, for …

Radially polarized optical beams are desirable in many applications because of their
property to generate longitudinally polarized fields when being strongly focused. Single …

Germanium vacancy (GeV) centers in diamonds constitute a promising platform for single-
photon sources to be used in quantum information technologies. Emission from these color …

Quantum information technologies will greatly benefit from efficiently coupled quantum
emitter–waveguide systems. Hybrid plasmonic waveguide modes are relatively low-loss …

We demonstrate the excitation of single surface plasmon polaritons on a silver nanowire
using a nitrogen vacancy center and the subsequent controlled coupling to a second silver …

In the quest to construct photonic circuits, the key issue is the coupling of light into
subwavelength devices. While plasmonic waveguides can be used as building blocks in …

Single dibenzoterrylene (DBT) molecules in anthracene nanocrystals have been shown to
emit single photons without blinking, bleaching, or spectral diffusion. Efficient integration of …

Light extraction from silicon (SiV) and nitrogen (NV) vacancy diamond color centers coupled
to plasmonic silver and gold nanorod dimers was numerically improved. Numerical …