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Real-time observation of ultrafast Rabi oscillations between excitons and plasmons in metal/molecular aggregate hybrid nanostructures

  • Cerullo G.,
  • Manzoni C.,
  • Maiuri M.,
  • Lammers M.,
  • Pomraenke R.,
  • Vasa P.,
  • Wang W.,
  • Lienau C.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134109018
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 41
p. 09018

Abstract

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We demonstrate ultrafast coherent manipulation of the normal mode splitting in metal/molecular-aggregate nanostructures by real-time observation of Rabi oscillations between excitons and surface-plasmon-polaritons. Oscillations in exciton density on a 10-fs timescale control the Rabi splitting.