Abstract

We demonstrate optical spin polarization of the neutrally charged silicon-vacancy defect in diamond (SiV^{0}), an S=1 defect which emits with a zero-phonon line at 946nm. The spin polarization is found to be most efficient under resonant excitation, but nonzero at below-resonant energies. We measure an ensemble spin coherence time T_{2}>100 μs at low-temperature, and a spin relaxation limit of T_{1}>25 s. Optical spin-state initialization around 946nm allows independent initialization of SiV^{0} and NV^{-} within the same optically addressed volume, and SiV^{0} emits within the telecoms down-conversion band to 1550nm: when combined with its high Debye-Waller factor, our initial results suggest that SiV^{0} is a promising candidate for a long-range quantum communication technology.

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