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Title: Magneto-optical chirality in a coherently coupled exciton-plasmon system

Abstract: Chirality is a fundamental asymmetry phenomenon, with chiral optical elements exhibiting asymmetric response in reflection or absorption of circularly polarized light. Recent realizations of such elements include nanoplasmonic systems with broken mirror symmetry and polarization-contrasting optical absorption known as circular dichroism. An alternative route to circular dichroism is provided by spin-valley polarized excitons in atomically thin semiconductors. In the presence of magnetic fields, they exhibit an imbalanced coupling to circularly polarized photons and thus circular dichroism. Here, we demonstrate that polarization-contrasting optical transitions associated with excitons in monolayer WSe$_2$ can be transferred to proximal plasmonic nanodisks by coherent coupling. The coupled exciton-plasmon system exhibits magneto-induced circular dichroism in a spectrally narrow window of Fano interference, which we model in a master equation framework. Our work motivates exciton-plasmon interfaces as building blocks of chiral metasurfaces for applications in information processing, non-linear optics and sensing.
Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures; 10 pages Supplementary Information
Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
Journal reference: Nano Letters 2023
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04246
Cite as: arXiv:2301.03275 [physics.optics]
  (or arXiv:2301.03275v1 [physics.optics] for this version)

Submission history

From: Samarth Vadia [view email]
[v1] Mon, 9 Jan 2023 11:19:34 GMT (1212kb,D)

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