Strong coupling in a microcavity containing β- carotene
Strong coupling in a microcavity containing β- carotene
We have fabricated an open-cavity microcavity structure containing a thin film of the biologically-derived molecule β-carotene. We show that the β-carotene absorption can be described in terms of a series of Lorentzian functions that approximate the 0-0, 0-1, 0-2, 0-3 and 0-4 electronic and vibronic transitions. On placing this molecular material into a microcavity, we obtain anti-crossing between the cavity mode and the 0-1 vibronic transition, however other electronic and vibronic transitions remain in the intermediate or weak-coupling regime due to their lower oscillator strength and broader linewidth. We discuss the consequences of strong-coupling for the possible modification of photosynthetic processes, or a re-ordering of allowed and optically-forbidden states.
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Grant, Richard T., Jayaprakash, Rahul, Coles, David M., Musser, Andrew, De Liberato, Simone, Samuel, Ifor D.W., Turnbull, Graham A., Clark, Jenny and Lidzey, David G.
(2018)
Strong coupling in a microcavity containing β- carotene.
Optics Express, 26 (3), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.26.003320).
Abstract
We have fabricated an open-cavity microcavity structure containing a thin film of the biologically-derived molecule β-carotene. We show that the β-carotene absorption can be described in terms of a series of Lorentzian functions that approximate the 0-0, 0-1, 0-2, 0-3 and 0-4 electronic and vibronic transitions. On placing this molecular material into a microcavity, we obtain anti-crossing between the cavity mode and the 0-1 vibronic transition, however other electronic and vibronic transitions remain in the intermediate or weak-coupling regime due to their lower oscillator strength and broader linewidth. We discuss the consequences of strong-coupling for the possible modification of photosynthetic processes, or a re-ordering of allowed and optically-forbidden states.
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Accepted/In Press date: 21 December 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 31 January 2018
Published date: 5 February 2018
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Rahul Jayaprakash
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David M. Coles
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Andrew Musser
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Graham A. Turnbull
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Jenny Clark
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David G. Lidzey
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