Topics in Nanophotonic Devices for Nitrogen-Vacancy Color Centers in Diamond

Recently, developments in novel and high-purity materials allow for the presence of a single, solitary crystalline defect to define the electronic, magnetic, and optical functionality of a device. The discrete nature of the active dopant, whose properties are defined by a quantum mechanical description of its structure, enables radically new quantum investigations and applications in these arenas. Finally, there has been significant development in large-scale device engineering due to mature semiconductor manufacturing techniques. The diverse set of photonic device architectures offering light confinement, guiding, and extraction is a prime example. These three paradigms - solitary dopant photonics and optoelectronics (solotronics), quantum science and technology, and device engineering - merge in the development of novel quantum photonic devices for the next generation of information processing systems.