Fourier-plane optical microscopy is a powerful technique for studying the angularly-resolved optical properties of a plethora of materials and devices. The information about the direction of the emission of light by a sample is extracted by imaging the objective back focal plane on a two-dimensional detector, via a suitable optical system. This imaging technique is able to resolve the angular spectrum of the light over a wide angular field of view, but typically it doesn’t provide any spectral information, since it integrates the light intensity over a broad wavelength range. On the other hand, advanced hyperspectral imaging techniques are able to record the spectrum of the transmitted/reflected/emitted light at each pixel of the detector. In this work, we combine an innovative hyperspectral imaging system with Fourier-space microscopy, and we apply the novel device to the characterization of planar organic microcavities. In our system, hyperspectral imaging is performed by Fourier-transform spectroscopy thanks to an innovative common-path birefringent interferometer: it generates two delayed replicas of the light field, whose interference pattern is recorded as a function of their delay. The Fourier Transform of the resulting interferogram yields the intensity spectrum for each element of the microscope angular field-of-view. This system provides an angle-resolved hyperspectral view of the microcavities. The hyperspectral Fourier-space image clearly evidences the cavity modes both in photoluminescence and reflection, whose energy has a parabolic dependence on the emission angle. From the hyperspectral image, we reconstruct a 3D view of the parabolic cavity dispersion across the whole Fourier space.
Strongly coupled organic microcavities are up-and-coming material systems for ambient polaritonics. A broad range of suitable materials made possible the experimental observation of polariton lasing across the whole visible range, as well as device-concepts ranging from ultra-fast transistors and all-optical logic gates to single-photon switching, all at room temperature under ambient conditions. Unlike the case of inorganic semiconductor microcavities, where continuous-wave excitation allows for the replenishment of particle losses, leading to the realization of steady-state polariton condensates, in organic semiconductors photobleaching and polaron formation prevent CW operation. BODIPY dyes have been the subject of thorough studies for their applications in the strong coupling regime. Strongly coupled BODIPY microcavities and polariton lasing in these structures allow for highly monochromatic tunable coherent emission of duration up to ~two picoseconds. Here, we use a single-mode lambda/2 strongly coupled microcavity of a BODIPY dye molecule, employ a single-shot dispersion imaging technique to study polariton lasing in a planar organic microcavity, and achieve a quasi-steady state exciton-polariton condensation under single-shot excitation in such systems. Temporal dynamics of a single-shot exciton-polariton lasing is of particular interest and importance for understanding rates of depletion and replenishment of the exciton reservoir and polariton states, respectively, under pulsed excitation. Moreover, the direct measurement of the condensate lifetime provides valuable insight into the transient processes of nonequilibrium polariton condensation. Long-lasting condensates exceeding polariton lifetime for several orders of magnitude push the system one step closer towards the regime of dynamic equilibrium and could be a missing puzzle towards polariton applications such as connected polariton devices and condensate lattices implemented at ambient conditions, opening the possibility for all-optical polariton circuitry on a chip.
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