@article{8398, author = {T. Chervy and S. Azzini and E. Lorchat and S. J. Wang and Y. Gorodetski and J. A. Hutchison and S. Berciaud and T. W. Ebbesen and C. Genet}, title = {Room Temperature Chiral Coupling of Valley Excitons with Spin-Momentum Locked Surface Plasmons}, abstract = {We demonstrate room temperature chiral coupling of valley excitons in a transition metal dichalcogenide monolayer with spin-momentum locked surface plasmons. At the onset of the strong coupling regime, we measure spin-selective excitation of directional flows of polaritons. Operating under such conditions, our platform yields surprisingly robust intervalley contrasts (ca. 40%) and coherence (ca. 5–8%) as opposed to their total absence for the uncoupled valley excitons at room temperature. These results open rich possibilities, easy to implement, in the context of chiral optical networks.}, year = {2018}, journal = {ACS Photonics}, volume = {5}, pages = {1281-1287}, doi = {10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01032}, language = {eng}, }