We uncover a rich set of optical phenomena stemming from the incorporation of polar materials exhibiting transverse phonon polariton excitations into a photonic crystal structure. We identify in the frequency spectrum two regimes in which the dielectric response of the polaritonic medium can induce extreme localization of the electromagnetic energy. Our analysis of the effect of polarization an...

We theoretically analyze exciton-photon oscillatory dynamics within a homogenous polariton gas in the presence of energy detuning between the cavity and quantum well modes. Whereas pure Rabi oscillations consist of the particle exchange between the photon and exciton states in the polariton system without any oscillations of the phases of the two subcondensates, we demonstrate that any nonzero ...

Low-temperature time-resolved edge-luminescence excitation spectroscopy has been used to probe the exciton-polariton transport properties in CdS crystals of up to 3 mm thickness. We report the first direct experimental observation of edge luminescence excited by long-lived polaritons with lifetimes exceeding 400 ns which propagate from their origin at the front sample surface to the rear surfac...

Excitons of polydiacetylene chains, diluted in a 3BCMU monomer single crystal, turn at very low light intensity into a nonabsorbing polariton state once the polymer concentration exceeds 10{-4} in weight. The transition is evident from a Lorentzian absorption peak which is truncated at an optical density OD approximately 2 and is consistent with polariton coupling of light to eigenstates of the...

A quantum damped-polariton model is constructed for an inhomogeneous anisotropic linear dielectric with arbitrary dispersion in space and time. The model Hamiltonian is completely diagonalized by determining the creation and annihilation operators for the fundamental polariton modes as specific linear combinations of the basic dynamical variables. Explicit expressions are derived for the time-d...

The hybridization of the plasmonic and guided modes in the case of one-dimension photonic crystal based on Bragg mirror terminated by a corrugated metal film has been demonstrated theoretically. The simulations have showed that the hybrid plasmonic-photonic mode is characterized by low broadening due to redistribution of the electric field intensity between photonic mode and surface plasmon pol...

Mots-clés : Exciton Polariton Microcavité Spectroscopie Semiconducteur Interaction In this review, we will try to summarize the results that we have obtained on the measurement of polariton interactions. We will describe here the samples, the experimental systems and some of the important results. We will also give a few highlights on the theoretical description of these results. One of the mai...

The optical propagation properties and magnetic polariton behaviors in perforated metal/dielectric layered structures are numerically investigated at near-IR region. A developed three-metal-layer (TML) structure is specially inspected as a simple case. Strong coupling effect of magnetic polariton is discovered in this system, which explains why TML structure reveals better negative-refraction p...