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Spectral Diffusion Mitigation with a Laser Pulse Sequence
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Authors: Kilian Unterguggenberger, Alok Gokhale, Aleksei Tsarapkin, Wentao Zhang, Katja Höflich, Herbert Fotso, Tommaso Pregnolato, Laura Orphal-Kobin, Tim Schröder
Year
2026
Paper ID
52144
Status
Preprint
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Abstract
The optical spectrum of a quantum system is jointly determined by the properties of the emitter and the driving field. All-optical spectral control can hence be a promising method to engineer the properties of single photon emitters for quantum technological applications. It was proposed that driving a two-level system with a periodic sequence of optical pi-pulses during the excited state lifetime shifts the emission and absorption maximum to an arbitrarily detuned pulse carrier frequency, enabling the mitigation of spectral diffusion in noisy emitters. In this article, we report on the first experimental observation of this effect. We implement the protocol on a solid-state emitter and reduce its inhomogeneously broadened optical linewidth close to the lifetime limit. By detuning the excitation laser, we are able to concentrate approximately half of the absorption to a freely selectable target frequency. Our approach is solely based on properties of coherently evolving quantum systems, rendering it applicable to a wide range of individual and ensembles of quantum emitters.
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