Phase change materials (PCMs) have long been used as a storage medium in rewritable compact disk and later in random access memory. In recent years, integration of PCMs with nanophotonic structures has introduced a new paradigm for non‐volatile reconfigurable optics. However, the high loss of the archetypal PCM Ge2Sb2Te5 in both visible and telecommunication wavelengths has fundamentally limited its applications. Sb2S3 has recently emerged as a wide‐bandgap PCM with transparency windows ranging from 610 nm to near‐IR. In this paper, the strong optical phase modulation and low optical loss of Sb2S3 are experimentally demonstrated for the first time in integrated photonic platforms at both 750 and 1550 nm. As opposed to silicon, the thermo‐optic coefficient of Sb2S3 is shown to be negative, making the Sb2S3–Si hybrid platform less sensitive to thermal fluctuation. Finally, a Sb2S3 integrated non‐volatile microring switch is demonstrated which can be tuned electrically between a high and low transmission state with a contrast over 30 dB. This work experimentally verifies prominent phase modification and low loss of Sb2S3 in wavelength ranges relevant for both solid‐state quantum emitter and telecommunication, enabling potential applications such as optical field programmable gate array, post‐fabrication trimming, and large‐scale integrated quantum photonic network.
Monolayer transition-metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs) are the first
truly two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor, providing an excellent platform
to investigate light–matter interaction in the 2D limit. The
inherently strong excitonic response in monolayer TMDs can be further
enhanced by exploiting the temporal confinement of light in nanophotonic
structures. Here, we demonstrate a 2D exciton–polariton system
by strongly coupling atomically thin tungsten diselenide (WSe2) monolayer to a silicon nitride (SiN) metasurface. Via energy-momentum
spectroscopy of the WSe2-metasurface system, we observed
the characteristic anticrossing of the polariton dispersion both in
the reflection and photoluminescence spectrum. A Rabi splitting of
18 meV was observed which matched well with our numerical simulation.
Moreover, we showed that the Rabi splitting, the polariton dispersion,
and the far-field emission pattern could be tailored with subwavelength-scale
engineering of the optical meta-atoms. Our platform thus opens the
door for the future development of novel, exotic exciton–polariton
devices by advanced meta-optical engineering.
Cavity-integrated transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDCs) excitons have recently emerged as a promising platform to study strong light–matter interactions and related cavity quantum electrodynamics phenomena. Although this exciton-cavity system is typically modeled as coupled harmonic oscillators, to account for the rich solid-state environment, the effect of exciton–phonon interaction needs to be incorporated. We model the system by including a phenomenological deformation potential for exciton–phonon interactions and we elucidate the experimentally measured preferential coupling of the excitonic photoluminescence to the cavity modes red-detuned with respect to the exciton resonance. Furthermore, we predict and experimentally confirm the temperature dependence of this preferential coupling. By accurately capturing the exciton–phonon interaction, our model illuminates the potential of cavity-integrated TMDCs for the development of low-power classical and quantum technologies.
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