Excitonic Polaritons in Semiconductor Micropillars

• Authors: D. Bajoni , E. Wertz , P. Senellart , A. Miard , E. Semenova , A. Lemaître , I. Sagnes , S. Bouchoule , J. Bloch
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We describe the physics of cavity polaritons in semiconductor micropillars. Cavity polaritons are exciton-photon entangled states arising from the strong coupling between excitons and the optical modes of a cavity. In micropillars, the photon three-dimensional confinement results in a discrete spectrum of 0D polariton states. Characterization of the linear properties of these micropillars will be presented. Then we will show how this system can be used to generate parametric photons and to obtain polariton lasing.

Keywords

EN

71.36.+c; 78.45.+h; 78.55.Cr; 78.67.Pt

Discipline

• 78.55.Cr: III-V semiconductors
• 78.45.+h: Stimulated emission(see also 42.55.-f Lasers)
• 78.67.Pt: Multilayers; superlattices; photonic structures; metamaterials(see also 81.05.Xj, Metamaterials for chiral, bianisotropic and other complex media)
• 71.36.+c: Polaritons (including photon-phonon and photon-magnon interactions)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 114
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 933-943

Dates

published

2008-11

received

2008-06-07

Contributors

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D. Bajoni

• Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, LPN/CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France

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E. Wertz

• Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, LPN/CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France

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P. Senellart

• Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, LPN/CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France

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A. Miard

• Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, LPN/CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France

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E. Semenova

• Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, LPN/CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France

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A. Lemaître

• Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, LPN/CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France

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I. Sagnes

• Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, LPN/CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France

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S. Bouchoule

• Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, LPN/CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France

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J. Bloch

• Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, LPN/CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.114.933