Analysis of Controlling and Directional Transport of Excitons in Plasmonic Nanostructures under Optical Strong Coupling

Excitons are quasi-particles that are the fundamental energy transporter in many light-harvesting applications. To efficiently transport energy, these excitons should maintain a suitable lifetime and should be able to travel specific distances before they decay and experience decoherence. When quantum emitters that generate excitons are strongly coupled to optical cavities such that created by localized surface plasmons, the exciton transport properties are shown to be increased. This thesis focuses on identifying spatial control mechanisms for exciton transport using electrostatic fields and directional exciton transport methods using chiral plasmonic setups in the strong coupling regime, that could improve many possible applications.