Engineered planar plasmonic reflector for polaritonic mode confinement [Invited]

Journal article (2023)

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S. Rajabali ETH Zürich
Shima Rajabali ETH Zürich
Josefine Enkner ETH Zürich
E. Cortese University of Southampton
Erika Cortese University of Southampton
Mattias Beck ETH Zürich
Simone D.E. Liberato University of Southampton
Jérôme Faist ETH Zürich
J. Faist ETH Zürich
Jerome Faist ETH Zürich
G. Scalari ETH Zürich
Giacomo Scalari ETH Zürich
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2023

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English

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Abstract

It was recently demonstrated that, in deep subwavelength gap resonators coupled to two-dimensional electron gases, propagating plasmons can lead to energy leakage and prevent the formation of polaritonic resonances. This process, akin to Landau damping, limits the achievable field confinement and thus the value of light-matter coupling strength. In this work, we show how plasmonic reflectors can be used to create an artificial energy stopband in the plasmon dispersion, confining them and enabling the recovery of the polaritonic resonances. Using this approach we demonstrate a normalized light-matter coupling ratio of ΩωR0 = 0.36 employing a single doped quantum well with a resonator’s gap size of 250 nm equivalent to λ/3000 in vacuum, a geometry in which the polaritonic resonances would not be observable in the absence of the plasmonic reflectors.