Proceedings of MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference (MATSUSSpring25)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsusspring.2025.419
Publication date: 16th December 2024
Exciton-polaritons are half-light, half-matter excitations arising from the strong coupling regime between cavity photons and excitons of semiconductors [1]. Behaving as superlative non-linear photons due to their hybrid nature, exciton-polaritons have been providing a fruitful ground for studying quantum fluid of light and realizing prospective all-optical devices. In this presentation, we present experimental studies on exciton-polaritons in resonant metasurfaces, which are composed of sub-wavelength lattices of perovskite pillars (see Figure). Room temperature polaritons are demonstrated with a remarkable Rabi splitting in the 200 meV range. We show that polaritonic dispersion can be tailored on-demand. This includes creating linear, slow-light, multi-valley shaped dispersions [2] as well as polarization vortex emission [3]. Finally, we observe experimentally the ballistic propagation of polaritons over hundreds of micrometers at room temperature, even with large excitonic components, some up to 80%. This long-range propagation is enabled by the high homogeneity of the metasurface, and by the large Rabi splitting which completely decouples polaritons from the phonon bath at the excitonic energy [4]. Our results suggest a new approach to study exciton-polaritons and pave the way for the development of large-scale and low-cost integrated polaritonic devices operating at room temperature.