Recent Publications
1. Aharonovich, S. Castelletto, D. Simpon, A. Greentree, S. Prawer, Progress on Single
Photon Sources in diamond, accepted in Reports on Progress in Physics on the 12th
March 2011
2. Aharonovich, S. Castelletto, B.C. Johnson, J. C. McCallum, S. Prawer, Engineering
chromium related single photon emitters in single crystal diamond, to appear on New
Journal of Physics and invited to special issue on Focus on Diamond-Based Photonics
and Spintronics.
3. S. Castelletto, J. P. Harrison, L. Marseglia, A. C. Stanley-Clarke, B. C. Gibson, B. A.
Fairchild, J. P. Hadden, Y.-L. D. Ho, M. P. Hiscocks, K. Ganesan, S. T. Huntington, F.
Ladouceur, A. D. Greentree, S. Prawer, J. L. O’Brien and J. G. Rarity, Diamond-based
structures to collect and guide light, New Journal of Physics 13 (2011) 025020 doi:
10.1088/1367-2630/13/2/025020, invited to special issue on Focus on DiamondBased Photonics and Spintronics.
4. S. Castelletto, I. Aharonovich, B. C. Gibson, B.C. Johnsons and S. Prawer, Imaging and
Quantum-Efficiency Measurement of Chromium Emitters in Diamond, Physical Review
Letters 105, 217403 (2010).
5. I. Aharonovich, S. Castelletto, B.C. Johnson, J. C. McCallum, D. A. Simpson, A. D.
Greentree and S. Prawer, Chromium single-photon emitters in diamond fabricated by
ion implantation, Physical Review B 81, 121201(R) (2010)
6. I. Aharonovich, S. Castelletto, B. C. Johnson, J. C. McCallum, D. A. Simpson, A. D.
Greentree and S Prawer, Photophysics of novel diamond based single photon emitters
Physical Review A 81, 043813 (2010)
7. P. Siyushev, V. Jacques, I. Aharonovich, F. Kaiser, T. Müller, L. Lombez, M. Atatüre, S.
Castelletto, S. Prawer, F. Jelezko and J. Wrachtrup, Low-temperature optical
characterization of near infrared single-photon emitter in nanodiamonds, New Journal
of Physics, 11 113029 (2009)
8. I. Aharonovich, S. Castelletto, D A Simpson, A. Stacey, J. McCallum, A. D. Greentree, S.
Prawer, Two-Level Ultrabright Single Photon Emission from Diamond Nanocrystals,
Nano Letters 9, 3191-5, (2009)
9. I. Aharonovich, C. Zhou, A. Stacey, J. Orwa, S. Castelletto, D. Simpson, A.D. Greentree, F.
Treussart, J.F. Roch, and S. Prawer, Enhanced single-photon emission in the near
infrared from a diamond color center, Physical Review B, 79, 235316 (2009)
10. S. Castelletto, A. Roberts, R.E. Scholten, Correlated imaging visibility using a
parametric down conversion source seeded with partially coherent stimulation,
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 26, 6, 1221–1227 (2009).
11. S. Castelletto, R.E. Scholten, Heralded Single Photon Sources: a route towards quantum
communication technology and photon standards, European Physics Journal Applied
Physics 41, 181-194 (2008).
12. S. Castelletto, I. P. Degiovanni, V. Schettini, Tommaso Del Rosso, Giancarlo Margheri,
Leonardo Papi, Stefano Sottini, Comparison of photon counting and analog techniques
for the measurement of photon pairs generation in PPLN Waveguide, Journal of the
Optical Society of America B, 25, 7-14 (2008)
13. S. Crosby, S. Castelletto, C. Aruldoss, R. E. Scholten and A. Roberts, Modelling of classical
ghost images obtained using scattered light, New Journal of Physics 9, 285 (2007)
14. V. Schettini, Sergey V. Polyakov, I P Degiovanni, G Brida, S Castelletto, and A. Migdall,
Implementing a multiplexed system of detectors for higher photon counting rates,
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 13, 978-983 (2007)
15. E. Puddu, A. Andreoni, I. Degiovanni M. Bondani, S. Castelletto, Ghost imaging with
intense fields from chaotically-seeded parametric down-conversion, Optics Letters
32,9, 1132-34 (2007)
16. IP Degiovanni, S Castelletto, E Puddu, M Bondani, A Andreoni, Ghost imaging with
intense correlated light, International Journal of Quantum Information 5, 1-2 , 33-36
(2007)
17. S. Castelletto, I. P. Degiovanni, V. Schettini, A. Migdall, Reduced Deadtime and Higher
Rate Photon-Counting Detection using a Multiplexed Detector Array, Special Issue of
Journal of Modern Optics 54, 2-3,337-352 (2007)
18. J. Y. Cheung, A. Migdall, and S. Castelletto, Introduction to Special Issue on SinglePhoton: Sources, detectors, applications and measurement methods, Journal of Modern
Optics 54, 2-3, 137-139 (2007)
19. S. Castelletto, I. P. Degiovanni, V. Schettini, A. Migdall, Optimizing single-photon-source
heralding efficiency at 1550 nm using periodically poled lithium niobate, Metrologia,
43, 1-5 (2006)
Recent Conference papers
20. S. Castelletto, I. Aharonovich, B. C. Gibson, B. C. Johnson and S. Prawer, Emission dipole
imaging in diamond single emitters, Proceedings of the 19th Australian Institute of
Physics Congress, Melbourne (2010)
21. S Tomljenovic-hanic, I Aharonovich, S Castelletto, B Fairchild, K Ganesan, B Gibson, A
Greentree, J Orwa, S Rubanov, D Simpson, A stacey, S Prawer, Towards All-Diamond
Optical Devices, 12th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks,
ICTON, 1-4, IEEE (Chennai) (2010)
22. I. Aharonovich, S. Castelletto and S. Prawer, Novel Single Photon Emitters Based On
Color Centers In Diamond, ICPS 30 Proceedings, 30th International Conference on the
Physics of semiconductor, Korea (2010)
23. S. Castelletto, I. Aharonovich, C.H. Su, A. D. Greentree, S. Prawer, Impurities in diamond:
new sources for quantum information, Proceedings SPIE 7815, 78150C,
doi:10.1117/12.865609 (2010)
24. S. Castelletto, R. Lowden, R. Scholten, A. Roberts, Seeded Parametric Downconversion
for Quantum Ghost Imaging, Conference Paper, Quantum-Atom Optics Downunder
(QAO), Wollongong, Australia (2007).
25. S. C. Crosby, S. Castelletto, R.E. Scholten and A. Roberts, Effect of spatial coherence of a
pseudo-thermal beam on classical ghost-imaging experiments, Proceedings of the 17th
National Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, Brisbane (2006)
26. A. Andreoni, E. Puddu, I. P. Degiovanni, M. Bondani, S. Castelletto, Ghost imaging
with
intense
entangled
fields,
Proceedings
SPIE,
6710,
671003,
doi:10.1117/12.732346, (2007)
27. S. Crosby, S. Castelletto, A. Roberts, R. Scholten, Modelling of classical ghost images
formed using pseudo-thermal light sources, Proceedings SPIE, 6710, 671002
doi:10.1117/12.732246, (2007)
28. E. Puddu, A. Andreoni, I. Degiovanni, M. Bondani, S. Castelletto, Ghost Imaging Protocol
with Intense Correlated Fields for Efficient Encryption, Advances in
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information with atoms and
photons , International Journal of Quantum Information, Turin, Italy (2006).
29. S. Castelletto, I. Degiovanni, A. Migdall, S. Polyakov, V. Schettini, Achieving higher
photon counting rates using multiplexed detectors,
Proceedings
SPIE,
6305, 63050R (2006).
30. S. Castelletto, I.P. Degiovanni, V. Schettini, T. Del Rosso, G. Margheri, S. Sottini,
Parametric down-conversion of photons at 1550 nm by laboratory prototype
periodically poled lithium niobate bulk and waveguide: a route to single photon source
and photon entanglement, Proceedings SPIE 6183, 618317 (2006)
Other publications
31. S. Castelletto, I. Aharonovich and S. Prawer, Novel single-photon emitters, SPIE News
room, 18 February 2011, doi: 10.1117/2.1201101.003506.
32. A.D. Greentree, I. Aharonovich, S. Castelletto, M.W. Doherty, L.P. McGuinness and D.A.
Simpson, 21st-Century Applications of Nanodiamonds, OPN Optics and Photonics
News 21, 9, 20-25 (2010)