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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Exploring the nature of high-order cavity polaritons under the coupling-decoupling transition
M Godsi1, A Golombek1, M Balasubrahmaniyam1
1School of Chemistry, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences and Center for Light-Matter Interaction, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.
Abstract:
Recently, we predicted theoretically that in cavities that support several longitudinal modes, strong coupling can occur in very different manners, depending on the system parameters. Distinct longitudinal cavity modes are either entangled with each other via the material or independently coupled to the exciton mode. Here, we experimentally demonstrate the transition between those two regimes as the cavity thickness is gradually increased while maintaining fixed coupling strength. We study the properties of the system using reflection and emission spectroscopy and show that even though the coupling strength is constant, different behavior in the spectral response is observed along the coupling-decoupling transition. In addition, we find that in such multimode cavities, pronounced upper polariton emission is observed, in contrast to the usual case of a single-mode cavity. Furthermore, we address the ultrafast dynamics of the multimode cavities by pump-probe spectroscopic measurements and observe that the transient spectra significantly change through the transition.
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