Strong coupling of collection of emitters on hyperbolic meta-material uri icon

abstract

  • 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd. Recently, considerable effort has been devoted to the realization of a strong coupling regime of the radiation matter interaction in the context of an emitter at a meta surface. The strong interaction is well realized in cavity quantum electrodynamics, which also show that strong coupling is much easier to realize using a collection of emitters. Keeping this in mind, we study if emitters on a hyperbolic meta materials can yield a strong coupling regime. We show that strong coupling can be realized for densities of emitters exceeding a critical value. A way to detect strong coupling between emitters and hyperbolic metamaterials is to use the Kretschman-Raether configuration. The strong coupling appears as the splitting of the reflectivity dip. In the weak coupling regime, the dip position shifts. The shift and splitting can be used to sense active molecules at surfaces.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF OPTICS

altmetric score

  • 0.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Biehs, S., Xu, C., & Agarwal, G. S.

citation count

  • 6

complete list of authors

  • Biehs, Svend-Age||Xu, Chenran||Agarwal, Girish S

publication date

  • April 2018