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Nano-photonics meets nano-mechanics
by Staff Writers
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 26, 2016


False colour scanning electronic micrograph (SEM) of hybrid graphene-NV near-field nano-optomechanical system. Image courtesy ICFO. For a larger version of this image please go here.

Active in situ control of light at the nanoscale remains a challenge in modern physics and in nanophotonics in particular. A promising approach is to take advantage of the technological maturity of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) and combine it with on-chip optics, but the integration of such small devices with optical fields remains difficult.

In a recent work published in Nature Communications, ICFO researchers Dr. Antoine Reserbat-Plantey, Kevin G. Schadler, and Dr. Louis Gaudreau, led by ICREA Professors at ICFO Frank H. L. Koppens and Adrian Bachtold and ICFO Professor Darrick Chang, have presented a novel type of hybrid system, consisting of an on-chip graphene NEMS suspended a few tens of nanometres above nitrogen-vacancy centres (NVCs), which are stable single-photon emitters embedded in nanodiamonds.

Their work has confirmed that graphene is an ideal platform for both nanophotonics and nanomechanics.

For their study the team of researchers fabricated for the first time such an original hybrid device. Due to its electromechanical properties, graphene NEMS can be actuated and deflected electrostatically over few tens of nanometres with modest voltages applied to a gate electrode.

The graphene motion can thus be used to modulate the light emission by the NVC, while the emitted field can be used as a universal probe of the graphene position. The optomechanical coupling between the graphene displacement and the NVC emission is based on near-field dipole-dipole interactions.

The researchers were able to see that the coupling strength increases strongly for shorter distances and is enhanced because of graphene's two-dimensional (2D) character and linear dispersion.

These achievements hold promise for selective control of emitter arrays on-chip, optical spectroscopy of individual nano-objects, integrated optomechanical information processing, and opens new avenues towards quantum optomechanics.


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