Exciton polaritons based on planar dielectric Si asymmetric nanogratings coupled with J-aggregated dyes film

Abstract

Optical cavity polaritons, originated from strong coupling between the excitons in materials and photons in the confined cavities field, have recently emerged as their applications in the high-speed low-power polaritons devices, low-threshold lasing and so on. However, the traditional exciton polaritons based on metal plasmonic structures or Fabry-Perot cavities suffer from the disadvantages of large intrinsic losses or hard to integrate and nanofabricate. This greatly limits the applications of exciton poalritons. Thus, here we implement a compact low-loss dielectric photonic – organic nanostructure by placing a 2-nm-thick PVA doped with TDBC film on top of a planar Si asymmetric nanogratings to reveal the exciton polaritons modes. We find a distinct anti-crossing dispersion behavior appears with a 117.16 meV Rabi splitting when varying the period of Si nanogratings. Polaritons dispersion and mode anti-crossing behaviors are also observed when considering the independence of the height of Si, width of Si nanowire B, and distance between the two Si nanowires in one period. This work offers an opportunity to realize low-loss novel polaritons applications.

Keywords

exciton polaritons / dielectric Si asymmetric nanogratings / TDBC J-aggregated dyes film

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFB2200403), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61775003, 11734001, 11527901, and 11804008), the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (No. BX201700011), and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2018M630019), and Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission (No. Z191100007219001).

Competing financial interests

The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests.

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