When do molecular polaritons behave like optical filters?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05036v1
• Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 12:48:34 GMT
• Title: When do molecular polaritons behave like optical filters?
• Authors: Kai Schwennicke, Arghadip Koner, Juan B. Pérez-Sánchez, Wei Xiong, Noel C. Giebink, Marissa L. Weichman, Joel Yuen-Zhou,
• Abstract summary: This perspective outlines several linear optical effects featured by molecular polaritons arising in the collective strong light-matter coupling regime. We show that, under these circumstances, molecular absorption within a cavity can be understood as the overlap between the polariton transmission and bare molecular absorption spectra. We highlight the limitations of this treatment when the rates of the single-molecule processes that facilitate dark-state-to-polariton relaxation cannot be neglected.
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• Abstract: This perspective outlines several linear optical effects featured by molecular polaritons arising in the collective strong light-matter coupling regime, focusing on the limit when the number of molecules per photon mode is large. We show that, under these circumstances, molecular absorption within a cavity can be understood as the overlap between the polariton transmission and bare molecular absorption spectra, suggesting that polaritons act in part as optical filters. This framework demystifies and provides a straightforward explanation for a large class of theoretical models of polaritonic phenomena, highlighting that similar effects might be achievable outside a cavity with shaped laser pulses. With a few modifications, this simple conceptual picture can also be adapted to understand the incoherent nonlinear response of polaritonic systems. However, we note that there are experimental observations in the collective regime that exhibit phenomena that go beyond this treatment. Our analysis underscores the importance of the notion that the field still needs to establish a clear distinction between polaritonic phenomena that can be fully explained through classical optics and those that require a more advanced theoretical framework. The linear optics approach presented here is exact when the number of molecules tends to infinity and is quite accurate for a large, but finite, number of molecules. We highlight the limitations of this treatment when the rates of the single-molecule processes that facilitate dark-state-to-polariton relaxation cannot be neglected and in systems under strong coupling with few molecules. Further exploration in these areas is needed to uncover novel polaritonic phenomena.

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