Laser-Induced Frequency Tuning of Fourier-Limited Single-Molecule Emitters

Anno: 2020

Autori: Maja Colautti, Francesco S. Piccioli, Zoran Ristanovic,́ Pietro Lombardi, Amin Moradi, Subhasis Adhikari, Irena Deperasinska, Boleslaw Kozankiewicz, Orrit Michel., Toninelli C.

Affiliazione autori: Natl Inst Opt CNR INO, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; European Lab Nonlinear Spect LENS, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; LION, Huygens Kamerlingh Onnes Lab, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands; Polish Acad Sci, Inst Phys, PL-02668 Warsaw, Poland

Abstract: The local interaction of charges and light in organic solids is the basis of distinct and fundamental effects. We here observe, at the single-molecule scale, how a focused laser beam can locally shift by hundreds of times their natural line width and, in a persistent way, the transition frequency of organic chromophores cooled at liquid helium temperature in different host matrices. Supported by quantum chemistry calculations, the results can be interpreted as effects of a photoionization cascade, leading to a stable electric field, which Stark-shifts the molecular electronic levels. The experimental observation is then applied to a common challenge in quantum photonics, i.e., the independent tuning and synchronization of close-by quantum emitters, which is desirable for multiphoton experiments. Five molecules that are spatially separated by about 50 μm and originally 20 GHz apart are brought into resonance within twice their line width. This tuning method, which does not require additional fabrication steps, is here independently applied to multiple emitters, with an emission line width that is only limited by the spontaneous decay and an inhomogeneous broadening limited to 1 nm. The system hence shows promise for photonic quantum technologies.

Giornale/Rivista: ACS NANO

Volume: 14 (10)      Da Pagina: 13584  A: 13592

Maggiori informazioni: Nico Verhart is acknowledged for performing the initial experiments on DBT in naphthalene. C.T. wishes to thank P. Foggi and F. S. Cataliotti for useful discussions. The authors acknowledge the EraNET Cofund Initiative QuantERA under the European Union´s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (ORQUID, grant agreement no. 731473). The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and NWOPhysics are acknowledged for funding for A.M., S.A., and Z.R. Theoretical calculations were performed at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Mathematical and Computer Modelling (ICM) of Warsaw University under the computational grant no. G-3210.
Parole chiavi: single molecule, optical tuning, organic semiconductors, single-photon sources, Stark shift
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05620

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