@article{israelsen2014a, title = {Increasing the photon collection rate from a single NV center with a silver mirror}, language = {eng}, author = {Israelsen, Niels Møller and Kumar, Shailesh and Tawfieq, Mahmoud and Neergaard-Nielsen, Jonas Schou and Huck, Alexander and Andersen, Ulrik Lund}, journal = {Journal of Optics}, volume = {16}, number = {11}, year = {2014}, issn = {20408986, 20408978}, abstract = {In the pursuit of realizing quantum optical networks, a large variety of different approaches have been studied to achieve a single photon source on-demand. The common goal for these approaches is to harvest all the emission from a quantum emitter into a single spatial optical mode while maintaining a high signal-to-noise ratio. In this work, we use a single nitrogen vacancy center in diamond as a quantum emitter operating at ambient conditions and we demonstrate an increased photon count rate up to a factor of 1.76 by placing a silver mirror fabricated on the end facet of an optical fiber near the emitter.}, doi = {10.1088/2040-8978/16/11/114017} }