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Precise one-dimensional nanochannels in transition metal dichalcogenides as building blocks for advanced nanophotonics
Abhay V. Agrawal, Wouter Holman, Betül Küçüköz +2
Atomically sharp edges are essential for future high-index nanophotonic structures, yet conventional lithography and dry etching methods inevitably introduce edge roughness that li…
Self-hybridized vibrational-Mie polaritons in water droplets
Adriana Canales, Oleg V. Kotov, Betül Küçüköz +1
We study the self-hybridization between Mie modes supported by water droplets with stretching and bending vibrations in water molecules. Droplets with radii are found to…
Combining ultrahigh index with exceptional nonlinearity in resonant transition metal dichalcogenide nanodisks
George Zograf, Alexander Yu. Polyakov, Maria Bancerek +3
Second-order nonlinearity in solids gives rise to a plethora of unique physical phenomena ranging from piezoelectricity and optical rectification to optical parametric amplificatio…
Probing optical anapoles with fast electron beams
Carlos Maciel-Escudero, Andrew B. Yankovich, Battulga Munkhbat +5
Optical anapoles are intriguing charge-current distributions characterized by a strong suppression of electromagnetic radiation. They originate from the destructive interference of…
Optical constants of several multilayer transition metal dichalcogenides measured by spectroscopic ellipsometry in the 300-1700 nm range: high-index, anisotropy, and hyperbolicity
Battulga Munkhbat, Piotr Wróbel, Tomasz J. Antosiewicz +1
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) attract significant attention due to their exceptional optical and excitonic properties. It was understood already in the 1960s, and recentl…
Nanostructured transition metal dichalcogenide multilayers for advanced nanophotonics
Battulga Munkhbat, Betül Küçüköz, Denis G. Baranov +2
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) attract significant attention due to their exceptional optical, excitonic, mechanical, and electronic properties. Nanostructured multilayer…
Casimir microcavities for tunable self-assembled polaritons
Battulga Munkhbat, Adriana Canales, Betul Kucukoz +2
Hybrid light-matter states, polaritons, are one of the central concepts in modern quantum optics and condensed matter physics. Polaritons emerge as a result of strong interaction b…
Abundance of cavity-free polaritonic states in resonant materials and nanostructures
Adriana Canales, Denis G. Baranov, Tomasz J. Antosiewicz +1
Strong coupling between various kinds of material excitations and optical modes has recently shown potential to modify chemical reaction rates in both excited and ground states. Th…
Enhancing vibrational light-matter coupling strength beyond the molecular concentration limit using plasmonic arrays
Manuel Hertzog, Battulga Munkhbat, Denis G. Baranov +2
Vibrational strong coupling is emerging as a promising tool to modify molecular properties, by making use of hybrid light-matter states known as polaritons. Fabry-Perot cavities fi…
Ultrastrong coupling between nanoparticle plasmons and cavity photons at ambient conditions
Denis G. Baranov, Battulga Munkhbat, Elena Zhukova +6
Ultrastrong coupling is a distinct regime of electromagnetic interaction that enables a rich variety of intriguing physical phenomena. Traditionally, this regime has been reached b…
Circular dichroism mode splitting and bounds to its enhancement with cavity-plasmon-polaritons
Denis G. Baranov, Battulga Munkhbat, Nils Odebo Länk +3
The ability to differentiate chiral molecules of different handedness is of great importance for chemical and life sciences. Since most of the relevant chiral molecules have their…
Single-particle Mie-resonant all-dielectric nanolasers
Ekaterina Yu. Tiguntseva, Kirill L. Koshelev, Aleksandra D. Furasova +7
All-dielectric subwavelength structures utilizing Mie resonances provide a novel paradigm in nanophotonics for controlling and manipulating light. So far, only spontaneous emission…
Visualizing plasmon-exciton polaritons at the nanoscale using electron microscopy
Andrew B. Yankovich, Battulga Munkhbat, Denis G. Baranov +7
Polaritons are compositional light-matter quasiparticles that have recently enabled remarkable breakthroughs in quantum and nonlinear optics, as well as in material science. Despit…
Transition metal dichalcogenide nanodisks as high-index dielectric Mie nanoresonators
Ruggero Verre, Denis G. Baranov, Battulga Munkhbat +3
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have recently been proposed as a unique excitonic platform for advanced optical and electronic functionalities. However, in spite…
Universal method for realization of strong light-matter coupling in hierarchical microcavity-plasmon-exciton systems
Ankit Bisht, Jorge Cuadra, Martin Wersäll +3
Polaritons are compositional light-matter quasiparticles that arise as a result of strong coupling between a vacuum field of a resonant optical cavity and electronic excitations in…
Comparative study of plasmonic antennas for strong coupling and quantum nonlinearities with single emitters
Benjamin Rousseaux, Denis G. Baranov, Mikael Käll +2
Realizing strong coupling between a single quantum emitter (QE) and an optical cavity is of crucial importance in the context of various quantum optical applications. While Rabi sp…
Suppression of photo-oxidation of organic chromophores by strong coupling to plasmonic nanoantennas
Battulga Munkhbat, Martin Wersäll, Denis G. Baranov +2
Intermixed light-matter quasiparticles - polaritons - possess unique optical properties owned to their compositional nature. These intriguing hybrid states have been extensively st…
Coherent perfect absorbers: linear control of light with light
Denis G. Baranov, Alex Krasnok, Timur Shegai +2
Absorption of electromagnetic energy by a material is a phenomenon that underlies many applied problems, including molecular sensing, photocurrent generation and photodetection. Co…
Observation of tunable charged exciton polaritons in hybrid monolayer WS2 plasmonic nanoantenna system
Jorge Cuadra, Denis G. Baranov, Martin Wersäll +3
Formation of dressed light-matter states in optical structures, manifested as Rabi splitting of the eigen energies of a coupled system, is one of the key effects in quantum optics.…