Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 88, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.075411
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Funding
- National Science Foundation [CHE-1059057]
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
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When a two-level quantum dot and a plasmonic metal nanoantenna are resonantly coupled by the electromagnetic near-field, the system can exhibit a Fano resonance, resulting in a transparency dip in the optical spectrum of the coupled system. We calculate the nonlinear response of such a system, for illumination both by continuous-wave and ultrafast pulsed lasers, using both a cavity quantum electrodynamics and a semiclassical coupled-oscillator model. For the experimentally relevant case of thermal broadening of the quantum-dot transition (to meV values consistent with similar to 100 K), we predict that femtosecond pulsed illumination can lead to a reversal of the Fano resonance, with the induced transparency changing into a superscattering spike in the spectrum. This ultrafast reversal is due to a transient change in the phase relationship between the dipoles of the plasmon and exciton. It thus represents a new approach to dynamically control the collective optical properties and coherence of coupled nanoparticle systems.
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