[13p-B508-1~21] 3.9 Terahertz technologies

▲ [13p-B508-7] Capacitive-mediated strong coupling in terahertz plasmonic metafilms

Riad Yahiaoui¹, Zizwe Chase¹, Chan Kyaw¹, G. Tim Noe², Andrey Baydin², FuYang Tay², Jared Strait³, Junyeob Sun³, Jun Kono², Amit Argawal³, 〇Thomas A Searles¹ (1.Howard Univ., USA, 2.Rice Univ., USA, 3.NIST, USA)

Keywords:strong coupling, light-matter interaciton, terahertz

We report terahertz metafilms designed to strongly couple hybridized lattice and fundamental dipole modes to form polaritons. By altering the metafilms’ capacitance, the coupling strength of the dipole-lattice coupling is tuned from weak to strong.