We just published a new paper in Nano Letters, resulting from a collaboration with colleagues at IPCMS (Strasbourg), and Radboud University (Nijmegen), about second-harmonic generation boosted by hybrid light-matter states. This effect is induced by the modification of the nonlinear optical (NLO) susceptibility of organic nanofiber crystals placed into optical microcavities. As the system could be even further optimized, in particular by the use of other types of optical resonators, this opens the door to more efficient NLO organic devices. Please find the paper in our publications page !
Monthly Archives: November 2016
Seminar Marcus Seidel about ultrafast spectroscopy
On Thursday, 24th of November, our guest Marcus Seidel, from Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany) will give a talk entitled
“About femtoseconds : pulse compression, mid-infrared generation and measurements of ultrafast molecular responses”
It will take place in the 1st floor seminar room (125) at 11am and you are all welcome to listen to him and/or to meet him.
A blog on our paper
Derek Lowe, publisher for Science Translational Medicine , has written a nice blog about our recent paper published in Angewandte Chemie, about ground-state chemical reactivity under vibrational strong-coupling. You can read the blog here, where you will also find links to other blogs about former results. And the paper itself is of course downloadable from the publications page of this site.
How to modify molecular and material properties
Thomas Ebbesen has written a report for Accounts of chemical research about the notion of hybrid light-matter states and the consequences of their existence on the molecular and material properties. This is an overview of the recent results in this emerging field of research where exciting possibilities remain to be explored. The paper can be downloaded from our publications page.