Observation of exciton-polariton ladder in semiconductor microcavity

H. Cao, S. Pau, Y. Yamamoto

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Abstract

Control of spontaneous emission in a semiconductor microcavity has attracted a lot of interest and investigation, as a result of its fundamental cavity QED aspects and its application to low threshold or even thresholdless lasers. The authors have investigated the case where many exciton modes couple with single cavity photon mode. Theoretical calculation shows that when the separation between adjacent exciton mode is much larger than the Rabi splitting of one exciton mode with the photon mode, the photon mode will couple with only one exciton mode at a time, and the dispersion curves show many anti-crossings. However, if the exciton mode separation is much smaller than the exciton-polariton coupling, the photon mode will couple with several exciton modes simultaneously. The Rabi splitting will be clamped by mode separation, and the anti-crossing of the dispersion curve is diminished.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages33-34
Number of pages2
StatePublished - 1996
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 1996 6th Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, QELS - Anaheim, CA, USA
Duration: Jun 2 1996Jun 7 1996

Other

OtherProceedings of the 1996 6th Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, QELS
CityAnaheim, CA, USA
Period6/2/966/7/96

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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