Patent ID: 9632045
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G01N,G01R

Claim:
1. A method for resolving at least one nitrogen vacancy center, comprising: providing at least one diamond structure with one or more nitrogen vacancy centers within a focal location, wherein the focal location is a wide field of view, each nitrogen vacancy center being in either a dark state or a bright state; applying a magnetic field across the at least one diamond structure; optically exciting the one or more nitrogen vacancy centers; switching at least one nitrogen vacancy center from the dark state to the bright state or from the bright state to the dark state by applying at least one microwave pulse to the one or more nitrogen vacancy centers; detecting a fluorescent response of each nitrogen vacancy center; and resolving at least one of the nitrogen vacancy centers based on the fluorescent response of each nitrogen vacancy center, the fluorescent response of each nitrogen vacancy center corresponding to its orientation relative to the magnetic field.