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SUBMITTER: Jeske J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5290152 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20170127
Stimulated emission is the process fundamental to laser operation, thereby producing coherent photon output. Despite negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV<sup>-</sup>) centres being discussed as a potential laser medium since the 1980s, there have been no definitive observations of stimulated emission from ensembles of NV<sup>-</sup> to date. Here we show both theoretical and experimental evidence for stimulated emission from NV<sup>-</sup> using light in the phonon sidebands around 700 nm. Fu ...[more]