Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Microcavity phonon polaritons from the weak to the ultrastrong phonon–photon coupling regime

  • María Barra-Burillo,
  • Unai Muniain,
  • Sara Catalano,
  • Marta Autore,
  • Fèlix Casanova,
  • Luis E. Hueso,
  • Javier Aizpurua,
  • Ruben Esteban,
  • Rainer Hillenbrand

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26060-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Strong coupling between light and matter can be engineered to influence their properties and behaviour. Here, the authors demonstrate the evolution from weak to ultrastrong coupling of microcavity modes and optical phonons with hexagonal boron nitride layers in a Fabry-Perot resonator.