• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 8, Issue 8, 1289 (2020)
Yumeng Song1、†, Yu Tian2、†, Zhiyi Hu1, Feifei Zhou1, Tengteng Xing1, Dawei Lu2, Bing Chen1、6、*, Ya Wang3、4、5, Nanyang Xu1、7、*, and Jiangfeng Du3、4、5、8、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Electronic Science and Applied Physics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
  • 2Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering and Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
  • 3Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 4CAS Key Laboratory of Microscale Magnetic Resonance, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 5Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 6e-mail: bingchenphysics@hfut.edu.cn
  • 7e-mail: nyxu@hfut.edu.cn
  • 8e-mail: djf@ustc.edu.cn
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    Yumeng Song, Yu Tian, Zhiyi Hu, Feifei Zhou, Tengteng Xing, Dawei Lu, Bing Chen, Ya Wang, Nanyang Xu, Jiangfeng Du. Pulse-width-induced polarization enhancement of optically pumped N-V electron spin in diamond[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(8): 1289 Copy Citation Text show less
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