Coherent coupling of a single molecule to a scanning Fabry-Perot microcavity

Wang D, Kelkar H, Martin-Cano D, Utikal T, Götzinger S, Sandoghdar V (2017)

Publication Type: Journal article, Review article

Publication year: 2017

Journal

Physical Review X American Physical Society

Book Volume: 7

Article Number: 021014

Journal Issue: 2

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.7.021014

Abstract

Organic dye molecules have been used in a great number of scientific and technological applications, buttheir wider use in quantum optics has been hampered by transitions to short-lived vibrational levels, whichlimit their coherence properties. To remedy this, one can take advantage of optical resonators. Here, wepresent the first results on coherent molecule-resonator coupling, where a single polycyclic aromatichydrocarbon molecule extinguishes 38% of the light entering a microcavity at liquid helium temperature.We also demonstrate fourfold improvement of single-molecule stimulated emission compared to free-spacefocusing and take first steps for coherent mechanical manipulation of the molecular transition. Ourapproach of coupling molecules to an open and tunable microcavity with a very low mode volume andmoderately low quality factors of the order of 103 paves the way for the realization of nonlinear andcollective quantum optical effects.

Authors with CRIS profile

Stephan Götzinger
Vahid Sandoghdar

Involved external institutions

Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts (MPL) / Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Wang, D., Kelkar, H., Martin-Cano, D., Utikal, T., Götzinger, S., & Sandoghdar, V. (2017). Coherent coupling of a single molecule to a scanning Fabry-Perot microcavity. Physical Review X, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.7.021014

MLA:

Wang, Daqing, et al. "Coherent coupling of a single molecule to a scanning Fabry-Perot microcavity." Physical Review X 7.2 (2017).

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