Highly nonlinear dipolar exciton-polaritons in bilayer MoS
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Highly nonlinear dipolar exciton-polaritons in bilayer MoS
2
Realizing nonlinear optical response in the low photon density limit in solid-state systems has been a long-standing challenge. Semiconductor microcavities in the strong coupling regime hosting exciton-polaritons have emerged as attractive candidates in this context. However, the weak interaction between these quasiparticles has been a hurdle in this quest. Dipolar excitons provide an attractive strategy to overcome this limitation but are often hindered by their weak oscillator strength. The interlayer dipolar excitons in naturally occurring homobilayer MoS2 alleviates this issue owing to their formation via hybridization of interlayer charge transfer exciton with intralayer B exciton. Here we demonstrate the formation of dipolar exciton polaritons in bilayer MoS2 resulting in unprecedented nonlinear interaction strengths. A ten-fold increase in nonlinearity is observed for the interlayer dipolar excitons compared to the conventional A excitons. These highly nonlinear dipolar polaritons will likely be a frontrunner in the quest for solid-state quantum nonlinear devices.
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De Liberato, Simone
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25 October 2022
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Bushati, Rezlind
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Datta, Biswajit, Khatoniar, Mandeep, Deshmukh, Prathmesh, Thouin, Felix, Bushati, Rezlind, De Liberato, Simone, Cohen, Stephane Kena and Menon, Vinod M.
(2022)
Highly nonlinear dipolar exciton-polaritons in bilayer MoS
2.
Nature Communications, 13 (6341), [6341].
(doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33940-3).
Abstract
Realizing nonlinear optical response in the low photon density limit in solid-state systems has been a long-standing challenge. Semiconductor microcavities in the strong coupling regime hosting exciton-polaritons have emerged as attractive candidates in this context. However, the weak interaction between these quasiparticles has been a hurdle in this quest. Dipolar excitons provide an attractive strategy to overcome this limitation but are often hindered by their weak oscillator strength. The interlayer dipolar excitons in naturally occurring homobilayer MoS2 alleviates this issue owing to their formation via hybridization of interlayer charge transfer exciton with intralayer B exciton. Here we demonstrate the formation of dipolar exciton polaritons in bilayer MoS2 resulting in unprecedented nonlinear interaction strengths. A ten-fold increase in nonlinearity is observed for the interlayer dipolar excitons compared to the conventional A excitons. These highly nonlinear dipolar polaritons will likely be a frontrunner in the quest for solid-state quantum nonlinear devices.
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Accepted/In Press date: 7 October 2022
Published date: 25 October 2022
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We thank Professor Bernhard Urbaszek for helpful discussions. We acknowledge support from ARO through grants W911NF-17-1-0312 and W911NF-22-1-0091; NSF DMR-2011738, and AFOSR-FA2386-21-1-4087. The low temperature spectroscopy facility was supported by NSF MRI grant - DMR-1726573. S.D.L. acknowledges support from a Royal Society Research Fellowship and from the Philip Leverhulme Prize of the Leverhulme Trust.
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