https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134109018
Real-time observation of ultrafast Rabi oscillations between excitons and plasmons in metal/molecular aggregate hybrid nanostructures
1 Institut für Physik, Carl von Ossietzky Universität, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany
2 Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 400076 Mumbai, India
3 IFN-CNR, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
We demonstrate ultrafast coherent manipulation of the normal mode splitting in metal/molecular-aggregate nanostructures by real-time observation of Rabi oscillations between excitons and surface-plasmon-polaritons. Oscillations in exciton density on a 10-fs timescale control the Rabi splitting.
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