Nonlinear signal enhancement of strongly-coupled molecules in pump-probe experiments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05261v1
• Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:50:37 GMT
• Title: Nonlinear signal enhancement of strongly-coupled molecules in pump-probe experiments
• Abstract summary: We quantify the contributions of signals from strongly-coupled and uncoupled populations in simulated experiments.<n>We find that while resonant schemes maximize selectivity for the signals of strongly-coupled molecules, non-resonant schemes retain surprisingly high sensitivity to these signals.
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• Abstract: Nonlinear spectroscopy is widely used to study the transient dynamics of molecules under strong light-matter coupling, though it remains unclear to what extent uncoupled intracavity molecules obscure signals from the strongly-coupled species of interest. Pump or probe fields resonant in the strongly-coupled spectral region will preferentially interact with cavity-coupled molecules, but can exhibit severe optical artifacts due to wave interference in the cavity. On the other hand, non-resonant pump or probe fields having wavelengths at which the cavity mirrors are highly transmissive propagate as traveling waves along the cavity axis, interacting with both coupled and uncoupled intracavity molecules. Here, we quantify the contributions of signals from strongly-coupled and uncoupled populations in simulated experiments with different resonant and non-resonant pump-probe configurations. We find that while resonant schemes maximize selectivity for the signals of strongly-coupled molecules, non-resonant schemes retain surprisingly high sensitivity to these signals while remaining less susceptible to optical artifacts.

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