Polaritonic molecular clock for all-optical ultrafast imaging of wavepacket dynamics without probe pulses

R. E. F. Silva (), Javier del Pino, Francisco J. García-Vidal and Johannes Feist ()
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R. E. F. Silva: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Javier del Pino: AMOLF
Francisco J. García-Vidal: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Johannes Feist: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Conventional approaches to probing ultrafast molecular dynamics rely on the use of synchronized laser pulses with a well-defined time delay. Typically, a pump pulse excites a molecular wavepacket. A subsequent probe pulse can then dissociate or ionize the molecule, and measurement of the molecular fragments provides information about where the wavepacket was for each time delay. Here, we propose to exploit the ultrafast nuclear-position-dependent emission obtained due to large light–matter coupling in plasmonic nanocavities to image wavepacket dynamics using only a single pump pulse. We show that the time-resolved emission from the cavity provides information about when the wavepacket passes a given region in nuclear configuration space. This approach can image both cavity-modified dynamics on polaritonic (hybrid light–matter) potentials in the strong light–matter coupling regime and bare-molecule dynamics in the intermediate coupling regime of large Purcell enhancements, and provides a route towards ultrafast molecular spectroscopy with plasmonic nanocavities.

Date: 2020
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