Polariton-mediated energy transfer between organic dyes in a strongly coupled optical microcavity
Polariton-mediated energy transfer between organic dyes in a strongly coupled optical microcavity
Strongly coupled optical microcavities containing different exciton states permit the creation of hybrid-polariton modes that can be described in terms of a linear admixture of cavity-photon and the constituent excitons. Such hybrid states have been predicted to have optical properties that are different from their constituent parts, making them a test bed for the exploration of light–matter coupling. Here, we use strong coupling in an optical microcavity to mix the electronic transitions of two J-aggregated molecular dyes and use both non-resonant photoluminescence emission and photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy to show that hybrid-polariton states act as an efficient and ultrafast energy-transfer pathway between the two exciton states. We argue that this type of structure may act as a model system to study energy-transfer processes in biological light-harvesting complexes.
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Coles, David M.
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Lagoudakis, Pavlos
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July 2014
Coles, David M.
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Somaschi, Niccolo
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Michetti, Paolo
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Clark, Caspar
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Lagoudakis, Pavlos
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Savvidis, Pavlos G.
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Lidzey, David G.
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Coles, David M., Somaschi, Niccolo, Michetti, Paolo, Clark, Caspar, Lagoudakis, Pavlos, Savvidis, Pavlos G. and Lidzey, David G.
(2014)
Polariton-mediated energy transfer between organic dyes in a strongly coupled optical microcavity.
Nature Materials, 13 (7), .
(doi:10.1038/NMAT3950).
Abstract
Strongly coupled optical microcavities containing different exciton states permit the creation of hybrid-polariton modes that can be described in terms of a linear admixture of cavity-photon and the constituent excitons. Such hybrid states have been predicted to have optical properties that are different from their constituent parts, making them a test bed for the exploration of light–matter coupling. Here, we use strong coupling in an optical microcavity to mix the electronic transitions of two J-aggregated molecular dyes and use both non-resonant photoluminescence emission and photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy to show that hybrid-polariton states act as an efficient and ultrafast energy-transfer pathway between the two exciton states. We argue that this type of structure may act as a model system to study energy-transfer processes in biological light-harvesting complexes.
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Accepted/In Press date: 18 March 2014
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 May 2014
Published date: July 2014
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/402545
ISSN: 1476-1122
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Caspar Clark
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David G. Lidzey
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