Control of the Optical Response of an Artificial Hybrid Nanosystem Due to the Plasmon-Exciton Plasmon Coupling Effect

TL;DR

This paper theoretically investigates how plasmon-exciton-plasmon coupling in a hybrid nanosystem of metallic nanoparticles and a quantum dot affects optical absorption, revealing tunable properties influenced by system symmetry, particle size, and medium dielectric constant.

Contribution

It introduces a theoretical model demonstrating tunable optical responses in hybrid nanosystems through plasmon-exciton coupling and system symmetry adjustments.

Findings

Strong exciton-plasmon coupling leads to tunable optical properties.

Adjusting interparticle distances controls absorption spectra.

Size and dielectric environment influence energy transfer efficiency.

Abstract

The optical response of an artificial hybrid molecule system composed of two metallic nanoparticles (MNPs) and a semiconductor quantum dot (SQD) is investigated theoretically due to the plasmon-exciton-plasmon coupling effects on the absorption properties of the hybrid nanosystem, which depends on the interaction between the induced dipole moments in the SQD and the MNPs, respectively. We show that the strong coupling of exciton and localized surface plasmons in such a hybrid molecules leads to appealing, tunable optical properties by adjusting the symmetry of the hybrid molecule nanosystem with controllable interparticle distances. We also address here the influence of the size of the MNPs and dielectric constant of the background medium on the optical absorption of the MNPs and SQD, respectively, which results in the interparticle Foster resonance energy transfer (FRET). Our results will open an avenue to deal with the surface-enhanced spectroscopies and potential application of the quantum information.