Author Affiliations

Zav Shotan,^1,7,* Harishankar Jayakumar,^1,7 Christopher R. Considine,^1,7 Maena Mackoit,^3,7 Helmut Fedder,^4,5,7 Jrg Wrachtrup,^4,5,7 Audrius Alkauskas,^3,7 Marcus W. Doherty,^6,7 Vinod M. Menon,^1,2,7 and Carlos A. Meriles^1,2,7

¹Department of Physics, CUNY-City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA

²CUNY-Graduate Center, New York, NY 10016, USA

³Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius LT-01108, Lithuania

⁴3rd Physics Institute, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany

⁵Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany

⁶Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National

⁷University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia.

^*Corresponding author: Zav.Shotan@gmail.com, zshotan@ccny.cuny.edu