We report on the observation of coupling a single nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in a nanodiamond crystal to a propagating plasmonic mode of silver nanowires. The nanocrystal is placed either near the apex of a single silver nanowire or in the gap between two end-to-end aligned silver nanowires. We observe an enhancement of the NV-centers' decay rate in both cases as a result of the coupling to the plasmons. The devices are nano-assembled with a scanning probe technique. Through simulations, we show that end-to-end aligned silver nanowires can be used as a controllable splitter for emission from a dipole emitter. © 2013 American Institute of Physics.
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Kumar, S., Huck, A., Chen, Y., & Andersen, U. L. (2013). Coupling of a single quantum emitter to end-to-end aligned silver nanowires. Applied Physics Letters, 102(10). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4795015
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