EUROPEAN CONGRESS AND EXHIBITION ON ADVANCED MATERIALS AND PROCESSES - EUROMAT 2021

Single organic molecules hold great promise for generating, manipulating, and storing single photons. Such processes form the basis for new quantum-enhanced technologies such as sensing, communications, and computation. In this talk I will focus on a particularly promising molecule – dibenzoterrylene (DBT). When DBT is introduced into a solid crystal of anthracene it is photostable and emits light between 780 and 795 nm. I will present recent results in growing DBT-doped anthracene crystals, characterising their interaction with photons and phonons, coupling molecules to nanophotonic devices, and tuning the DBT emission wavelength to coincide with rubidium atomic absorption.