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High Resolution Phonon-assisted Quasi-resonance Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Published on: June 28, 2016
Diffraction unlimited all-optical recording of electron spin resonances
Dominik Wildanger1, Jeronimo R Maze, Stefan W Hell
1Department of NanoBiophotonics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.
Abstract:
We show stimulated emission depletion microscopy to break the diffraction limit in the all-far-field-optical detection of magnetic fields and resonances. Electron spin resonances from single nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond located at subdiffraction proximities are fully discerned. Since diffraction is overcome by disallowing the signaling state through an optical transition such as stimulated emission, the spin state remains unaffected and amenable to microwave manipulation. Stimulated emission depletion presents a universal scheme for superresolving spin resonances detectable by fluorescence.
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