Strong coupling of electric transition dipoles with optical or plasmonic resonators modifies their light-matter interaction and, therefore, their optical spectra. Semiconducting WS2 nanotubes intrinsically provide the dipoles through their excitonic resonances, and the optical cavity via their cylindrical shape. We investigate the nonequi- librium light-matter interaction in WS2 nanotubes in the time domain using femtosecond transient extinction spectroscopy. We develop a phenomenological coupled oscillator model with time-dependent parameters to describe the transient extinction spectra, allowing us to extract the underlying nonequilibrium electron dynamics. We find that the exciton and trion resonances shift due to many-body effects of the photogenerated charge carriers and their population dynamics on the femto- and picosecond timescale. Our results show that the time-dependent phenomenological model quantitatively reproduces the nonequilibrium optical response of strongly coupled systems.

Ultrafast nonequilibrium dynamics of strongly coupled resonances in the intrinsic cavity of WS2 nanotubes

Pogna, Eva A. A.;Dal Conte, Stefano;Cerullo, Giulio;Gadermaier, Christoph
2019-01-01

Abstract

Strong coupling of electric transition dipoles with optical or plasmonic resonators modifies their light-matter interaction and, therefore, their optical spectra. Semiconducting WS2 nanotubes intrinsically provide the dipoles through their excitonic resonances, and the optical cavity via their cylindrical shape. We investigate the nonequi- librium light-matter interaction in WS2 nanotubes in the time domain using femtosecond transient extinction spectroscopy. We develop a phenomenological coupled oscillator model with time-dependent parameters to describe the transient extinction spectra, allowing us to extract the underlying nonequilibrium electron dynamics. We find that the exciton and trion resonances shift due to many-body effects of the photogenerated charge carriers and their population dynamics on the femto- and picosecond timescale. Our results show that the time-dependent phenomenological model quantitatively reproduces the nonequilibrium optical response of strongly coupled systems.
2019
Ultrafast phenomena, nanotubes, femtosecond laser spectroscopy, optical spectroscopy
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