Article Versatile optical manipulation of trions, dark excitons and biexcitons through contrasting exciton-photon coupling

Zhe Li ; Xin-Yuan Zhang ; Rundong Ma ; Tong Fu ; Yan Zeng ; Chong Hu ; Yufeng Cheng ; Cheng Wang ; Yun Wang ; Yuhua Feng ; Takashi Taniguchi SAMURAI ORCID (National Institute for Materials ScienceROR) ; Kenji Watanabe SAMURAI ORCID (National Institute for Materials ScienceROR) ; Ti Wang ; Xiaoze Liu ; Hongxing Xu

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Zhe Li, Xin-Yuan Zhang, Rundong Ma, Tong Fu, Yan Zeng, Chong Hu, Yufeng Cheng, Cheng Wang, Yun Wang, Yuhua Feng, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Ti Wang, Xiaoze Liu, Hongxing Xu. Versatile optical manipulation of trions, dark excitons and biexcitons through contrasting exciton-photon coupling. Light: Science & Applications. 2023, 12 (1), 295. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-023-01338-5
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Various exciton species in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as neutral excitons, trions (charged excitons), dark excitons, and biexcitons, have been individually discovered with distinct light-matter interactions. In terms of valley-spin locked band structures and electron-hole configurations, these exciton species demonstrate flexible control of emission light with degrees of freedoms (DOFs) such as intensity, polarization, frequency and dynamics. However, it remains elusive to fully manipulate different exciton species on demand for practical applications. Here, we investigate the contrasting light-matter interactions to control multiple DOFs of emission light in a hybrid monolayer WSe2-Ag nanowire (NW) structure by taking advantages of various exciton species. These excitons, including trions, dark excitons and biexcitons, are found to couple independently with propagating surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) of Ag NW in quite different ways, thanks to the orientations of transition dipoles. Consistent with the simulations, the dark excitons and dark trions show extremely high coupling efficiency with SPPs, while the trions demonstrate directional chiral-coupling features. This study presents a crucial step towards the ultimate goal of exploiting the comprehensive spectrum of TMD excitons for optical information processing and quantum optics.

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Keyword: Exciton species, light-matter interactions, surface plasmon polaritons

Date published: 2023-12-07

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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  • Light: Science & Applications (ISSN: 20477538) vol. 12 issue. 1 295

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  • National Natural Science Foundation of China 62005202
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China 12074297
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China 62261160386

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First published URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-023-01338-5

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