Photo-induced gyrotropic effects in semiconductor microcavities

Author

Pereda Cubian, D. ; Haddad, M. ; Andre, R. ; Frey, R. ; Roosen, G. ; Arce Diego, J.L. ; Flytzanis, C.

Author_Institution

Inst. d´Opt., CNRS, Orsay, France

fYear

2002

fDate

19-24 May 2002

Firstpage

14

Lastpage

15

Abstract

Summary form only given. We assess the gyrotropic part of these photo-induced changes through a theoretical and experimental study of the polarization effects occurring at high exciton densities in a microcavity operated in the strong coupling regime. In this nonlinear process, a circularly-polarized pump pulse induces polarization changes on a linearly polarized incident probe beam due to the huge polarization dependent modifications of the light induced cavity-exciton coupling.

Keywords

excitons; laser beams; micro-optics; optical harmonic generation; optical pumping; optical resonators; optical rotation; circularly-polarized pump pulse; gyrotropic part; high exciton densities; light induced cavity-exciton coupling; linearly polarized incident probe beam; photo-induced changes; polarization changes; polarization dependent modifications; polarization effects; semiconductor microcavities; strong coupling regime; Excitons; Gyrotropism; Laser beams; Optical frequency conversion; Optical pumping; Optical resonators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2002. QELS '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-708-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QELS.2002.1031023

Filename

1031023