Broadband loop gap resonator for nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond
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Eisenach, ER; Barry, JF; Pham, LM; Rojas, RG; Englund, DR; Braje, DA; ... Show more Show less
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© 2018 Author(s). We present an S-band tunable loop gap resonator (LGR), which provides strong, homogeneous, and directionally uniform broadband microwave (MW) drive for nitrogen-vacancy (NV) ensembles. With 42 dBm of input power, the composite device provides drive field amplitudes approaching 5 G over a circular area ≈50 mm2 or cylindrical volume ≈250 mm3. The wide 80 MHz device bandwidth allows driving all NV Zeeman resonances for bias magnetic fields below 20 G. The device realizes percent-scale MW drive inhomogeneity; we measure a fractional root-mean-square inhomogeneity σrms = 1.6% and a peak-to-peak variation σpp = 3% over a circular area of 11 mm2 and σrms = 3.2% and σpp = 10.5% over a larger 32 mm2 circular area. We demonstrate incident MW power coupling to the LGR using two methodologies: a printed circuit board-fabricated exciter antenna for deployed compact bulk sensors and an inductive coupling coil suitable for microscope-style imaging. The inductive coupling coil allows for approximately 2π steradian combined optical access above and below the device, ideal for envisioned and existing NV imaging and bulk sensing applications.
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2018Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Lincoln LaboratoryJournal
Review of Scientific Instruments
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AIP Publishing