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Polariton-Mediated Energy Transfer between Organic Dyes in a Strongly Coupled Optical Microcavity

Coles, David M., Somaschi, Niccolo, Michetti, Paolo, Clark, Caspar, Lagoudakis, Pavlos G., Savvidis, Pavlos G., Lidzey, David G.·2014·Nature Materials

Abstract

Strongly coupled optical microcavities containing different exciton states permit the creation of hybrid-polariton modes that can be described in terms of a linear admixture of cavity-photon and the constituent excitons. Such hybrid states have been predicted to have optical properties that are different from their constituent parts, making them a test bed for the exploration of light-matter coupling. Here, we use strong coupling in an optical microcavity to mix the electronic transitions of two J-aggregated molecular dyes and use both non-resonant photoluminescence emission and photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy to show that hybrid-polariton states act as an efficient and ultrafast energy-transfer pathway between the two exciton states. We argue that this type of structure may act as a model system to study energy-transfer processes in biological light-harvesting complexes.

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Authors
Coles, D. M., Somaschi, N., Michetti, P., Clark, C., Lagoudakis, P. G., Savvidis, P. G., & Lidzey, D. G.
Affiliations
  • University of Sheffield (GB)
  • Technische Universität Dresden (DE)
  • Helia Photonics (United Kingdom) (GB)
  • University of Southampton (GB)
  • University of Crete (GR)
Corresponding author
Lidzey, David G.
Venue
Nature Materials
Published
2014-05-04
Volume
13
Issue
7
Pages
712-719
ISSN
  • 1476-1122 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4660
OpenAlex
W2157928204
Cited by
507
References
49
Citations by year
2026: 31 · 2025: 63 · 2024: 63 · 2023: 66 · 2022: 57 · 2021: 65 · 2020: 40 · 2019: 40 · 2018: 28 · 2017: 24 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 6
FWCI
8.95
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • Nature Materials (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • European Commission
  • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/G063494/1, EP/G062404/1, EP/F026455/1)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Strong Light-Matter Interactions
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Physical and Theoretical Chemistry › Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
Keywords
exciton-polaritons, strong light-matter coupling, optical microcavities, energy transfer, organic dyes, Förster transfer, light-harvesting complexes, exciton mixing, ultrafast energy transfer

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