Title :
Strong light-matter coupling in mid-infrared monolithic metamaterial nanocavities
Author :
Benz, Alexander ; Campione, Salvatore ; Liu, Siyuan ; Montano, Ines ; Klem, John F. ; Sinclair, Michael B. ; Capolino, Filippo ; Brener, Igal
Author_Institution :
Center for Integrated Nanotechnol., Sandia Nat. Labs., Albuquerque, NM, USA
Abstract :
We present the design and realization of strong light-matter coupling in monolithic metamaterial nanocavities. We achieve a Rabi frequency of 2.5 THz (corresponding to a polariton splitting of 20%) in a mode volume of 1.34×10-3(λ/n)3.
Keywords :
nanophotonics; optical design techniques; optical metamaterials; polaritons; Rabi frequency; frequency 2.5 THz; mid-infrared monolithic metamaterial nanocavities; mode volume; polariton splitting; strong light-matter coupling design; strong light-matter coupling realization; Cavity resonators; Couplings; Laboratories; Metamaterials; Optical resonators; Quantum well devices; Resonant frequency;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
