Localized solutions of the Maxwell equations on both sides of adjacent dielectric media are usually called surface polaritons. In the last decade in both experimental and theoretical — studies the properties of these localized excitations were studied (see e.g. [1, 2] and references therein): dispersion relations, mechanism of excitation [3, 4, 5], research by Raman scattering [6, 7] etc. Usual...

We predict that strong coupling between waveguide photons and excitons of quantum well embedded into waveguide results in the formation of hybrid-dark and antidark light-matter solitons. Such temporal solitons exist due to interplay between repulsive excitonic nonlinearity and giant group-velocity dispersion arising in the vicinity of excitonic resonance. Such fully conservative states do not r...

T. Gao, P. S. Eldridge, T. C. H. Liew, S. I. Tsintzos, G. Stavrinidis, G. Deligeorgis, Z. Hatzopoulos, and P. G. Savvidis Department of Materials Science & Technology, University of Crete, Greece IESL-FORTH, P.O. Box 1527, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637371, Singapore Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge...

A. Christ 1, , T. Zentgraf , S. G. Tikhodeev , N. A. Gippius, O. J. F. Martin, J. Kuhl, and H. Giessen 1 Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany 2 Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 3 A. M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute RAS, Moscow 119991, Russia 4 4th Physics Institute, University ...

Abstract We have experimentally observed the dynamics of a single polariton and two polaritons in two-ion chain. By driving trapped ions at motional blue-sideband (BSB) transition, we realize anti-Jaynes–Cummings–Hubbard (JCH) model. When exists trapped-ion chain, hops between ion sites. On other hand, when there are each site, hopping is suppressed because polariton–polariton interaction induc...

How to get the original ideas” is the fundamental and critical issue for the researchers in science and technology. In this paper, the author writes his experiences concerning how he could encounter the interesting and original ideas of three research subjects, i.e., the accelerating medium effect, the guided-mode extracted integral equation and the surface plasmon gap waveguide. key words: ide...