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Vol. 12, Issue 5, 941 (2024)

Ultrafast optical modulation of the fluorescence from a single-photon emitter in silicon carbide

Mengting He¹, Yujing Cao¹, Junjie Lin¹, Zhiping Ju^2,3..., Botao Wu¹ and E Wu^1,4,5,6,*|Show fewer author(s)

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¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China

²Photon Technology (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd., Jiaxing 314100, China

³National Key Laboratory of Materials for Integrated Circuits, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200000, China

⁴Department of Physics and Shanghai Key Laboratory for Magnetic Resonance, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China

⁵Chongqing Key Laboratory of Precision Optics, Chongqing Institute of East China Normal University, Chongqing 401120, China

⁶Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

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Mengting He, Yujing Cao, Junjie Lin, Zhiping Ju, Botao Wu, E Wu, "Ultrafast optical modulation of the fluorescence from a single-photon emitter in silicon carbide," Photonics Res. 12, 941 (2024) Copy Citation Text

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