Hybrid Cavity-Metasurface Design to Enhance Molecular Strong Light-Matter Coupling at Terahertz Frequencies
Investigations of molecular polaritonic phenomena have gained prominence due to recent experiments highlighting the potential of strong light-matter coupling to modify the pathways and rates of chemical reactions. We design a hybrid metamaterial-photonic cavity architecture with a resonance located at THz frequencies to achieve strong light-matter coupling with a vibrational mode of glucose. We measure a vacuum Rabi splitting of 200 GHz, paving the way towards experiments exploiting hybrid states to alter chemical or physical properties.
Authors
- Ali Maleki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5490-3350)
- Ahmed Jaber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5493-2530)
- Claudiu Genes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4445-5739)
- Jean‐Michel Ménard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6458-758X)
- Ksenia Dolgaleva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-679X)
- Michael Reitz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4484-7209)
- Robert W. Boyd (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1234-2265)
- Avinash Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6572-6732)
- Brian Sullivan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5275-3931)
- Y.-C. Xin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9678-5145)
Institutions
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- Max Planck - University of Ottawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics (CA)
- Iridian Spectral Technologies (Canada) (CA)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-05-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/pn66844.2025.11097148
- Primary Topic
- Strong Light-Matter Interactions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
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