Engineering Atomic Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride via Resonant Optical Excitation of Phonons
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Jadidi, M. Mehdi; Chen, Cecilia Y.; Li, Baichang; Ginsberg, Jared S.; Chae, Sang Hoon; Joshi, Chaitali; Patwardhan, Gauri; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Hone, James; Gaeta, Alexander L.
- Source
- 2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2020 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2020
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Ultrafast optics
Phonons
Optical polarization
Atom optics
Optical pulses
Optical pumping
- Language
We introduce an approach to engineer defects in hBN using intense pulses resonant with phonons at 7.3 μm. Such defects are highly subwavelength < 30 nm) with an alignment sensitive to the polarization.