Breakdown of Polaritons in Nanophotonic Systems

Rajabali, S.; Cortese, Erika; Beck, Mattias; De Liberato, Simone; Faist, Jérôme; Scalari, Giacomo

Breakdown of Polaritons in Nanophotonic Systems

Conference paper (2021)

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S. Rajabali ETH Zürich

Erika Cortese University of Southampton

Mattias Beck ETH Zürich

Simone De Liberato University of Southampton

Jérôme Faist ETH Zürich

Giacomo Scalari ETH Zürich

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2021

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Abstract

We report a physical limit for reducing the modal volume of a cavity and ultimately increasing the light-matter coupling strength. Extremely confined photonic mode below a critical length-scale can introduce a large in-plane wave vector and excite a continuum of high momentum matter resonances. This excitations act as loss channels and reduce the field confinement by smearing the distribution of surface charges, thus consequently limiting the achievable field enhancement.