Collective excitations of charged particles under the influence of an
electromagnetic field give rise to a rich variety of hybrid light-matter
quasiparticles with unique properties. In metals, intraband collective response
manifested by negative permittivity leads to plasmon-polaritons with extreme
field confinement, wavelength squeezing, and potentially low propagation
losses. In contrast, photons in semiconductors commonly couple to interband
collective response in the form of exciton polaritons, which give rise to
completely different polaritonic properties, described by a superposition of
the photon and exciton and an anti-crossing of the eigenstates. In this work,
we identify the existence of plasmon-like collective excitations originating
from the interband excitonic response of biased bilayer and trilayer graphene,
in the form of graphene-exciton-polaritons (GEPs). We find that GEPs possess
electrically tunable polaritonic properties and discover that such excitations
follow a universal dispersion law for all surface polaritons in 2D excitonic
systems. Accounting for nonlocal corrections to the excitonic response, we find
that the GEPs exhibit confinement factors that can exceed those of graphene
plasmons, and with moderate losses. These predictions of plasmon-like interband
collective excitations in biased graphene systems open up new research avenues
for tunable polaritonic phenomena based on excitonic systems, and the ability
to control and manipulate such phenomena at the atomic scale.