Optical properties of diamond articles within Nature Physics

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• News & Views | 12 October 2022

  Magnetometry goes nuclear

  Quantum sensing that uses electron spins in diamond can perform precise magnetic field measurements but does not work well at high magnetic fields. An alternative approach involving the spins of carbon-13 nuclei can operate in the high-field regime.

  • Norikazu Mizuochi

• Letter | 06 April 2015

  Broadband magnetometry and temperature sensing with a light-trapping diamond waveguide

  Nitrogen–vacancy centres offer significant promise as nanoscale magnetometers. A light-trapping diamond waveguide is demonstrated, enhancing the temperature and magnetic field sensitivity of such centres by three orders of magnitude.

  • Hannah Clevenson
  • , Matthew E. Trusheim
  •  & Dirk Englund

• Research Highlights | 30 June 2014

  Safe deliveries

  • Federico Levi

• Letter | 13 October 2013

  Fast optical modulation of the fluorescence from a single nitrogen–vacancy centre

  The intensity of optically-pumped fluorescence generated from a single atomic defect in diamond can be reduced by 80% in just 100 ns by applying infrared laser light. This result demonstrates the possibility of using these so-called nitrogen–vacancy centres to create optical switches that operate at room temperature.

  • Michael Geiselmann
  • , Renaud Marty
  •  & Romain Quidant