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Advanced Photonics
Vol. 1, Issue 6, 066002 (2019)

Photodynamics and quantum efficiency of germanium vacancy color centers in diamond

Minh Nguyen^1、†, Niko Nikolay², Carlo Bradac¹, Mehran Kianinia¹, Evgeny A. Ekimov^3、4, Noah Mendelson¹, Oliver Benson², and Igor Aharonovich^1、*

Author Affiliations

¹University of Technology Sydney, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia

²Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, AG Nanooptik, Berlin, Germany

³Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for High Pressure Physics, Moscow, Troitsk, Russia

⁴Russian Academy of Sciences, Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia

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Minh Nguyen, Niko Nikolay, Carlo Bradac, Mehran Kianinia, Evgeny A. Ekimov, Noah Mendelson, Oliver Benson, Igor Aharonovich. Photodynamics and quantum efficiency of germanium vacancy color centers in diamond[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2019, 1(6): 066002 Copy Citation Text

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Minh Nguyen, Niko Nikolay, Carlo Bradac, Mehran Kianinia, Evgeny A. Ekimov, Noah Mendelson, Oliver Benson, Igor Aharonovich. Photodynamics and quantum efficiency of germanium vacancy color centers in diamond[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2019, 1(6): 066002

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