Room Temperature Exciton-Polariton Condensation in Silicon Metasurfaces Emerging from Bound States in the Continuum

Autor: Berghuis, Anton Matthijs, Castellanos, Gabriel W., Murai, Shunsuke, Pura, Jose Luis, Abujetas, Diego R., van Heijst, Erik, Ramezani, Mohammad, Sánchez-Gil, José A., Rivas, Jaime Gómez
Rok vydání: 2023
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c01102
Popis: We show the first experimental demonstration of room-temperature exciton-polariton (EP) condensation from a bound state in the continuum (BIC). This demonstration is achieved by strongly coupling stable excitons in an organic perylene dye with the extremely long-lived BIC in a dielectric metasurface of silicon nanoparticles. The long lifetime of the BIC, mainly due to the suppression of radiation leakage, allows for EP thermalization to the ground state before decaying. This property results in a condensation threshold of less than 5 \mu J cm^{-2}, one order of magnitude lower that the lasing threshold reported in similar systems in the weak coupling limit.
Databáze: arXiv