Photonics Research, Volume. 9, Issue 5, 829(2021)

Ultralarge Rabi splitting and broadband strong coupling in a spherical hyperbolic metamaterial cavity

Ping Gu1... Jing Chen1,*, Siyu Chen1, Chun Yang1, Zuxing Zhang1, Wei Du2,3, Zhengdong Yan4, Chaojun Tang5,6, and Zhuo Chen27 |Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Microelectronics, Institute of Advanced Photonics Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
  • 2College of Physics, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 3College of Physics Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225002, China
  • 4College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
  • 5College of Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China
  • 6e-mail: chaojuntang@126.com
  • 7e-mail: zchen@nju.edu.cn
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    Ping Gu, Jing Chen, Siyu Chen, Chun Yang, Zuxing Zhang, Wei Du, Zhengdong Yan, Chaojun Tang, Zhuo Chen, "Ultralarge Rabi splitting and broadband strong coupling in a spherical hyperbolic metamaterial cavity," Photonics Res. 9, 829 (2021)

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    Category: Surface Optics and Plasmonics

    Received: Dec. 18, 2020

    Accepted: Mar. 4, 2021

    Published Online: May. 7, 2021

    The Author Email: Jing Chen (jchen@njupt.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.417648

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