Polariton laser and OPO in micropillar cavities

Author

Bloch, J. ; Bajoni, D. ; Wertz, E. ; Senellart, P. ; Miard, A. ; Semenova, E. ; Lemaître, A. ; Sagnes, I. ; Bouchoule, S.

Author_Institution

Lab. de Photonique et de Nanostruct., CNRS, Marcoussis, France

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Semiconductor microcavities in the strong coupling regime have been the subject of intensive research efforts these last years. In this system, the eigenstates are exciton-photon entangled states (named cavity polaritons). Polaritons present strong non-linearities due to their excitonic part and obey to bosonic statistics, thus being able to massively occupy a single quantum state (quantum degeneracy). The paper discusses the potentiality of cavity polaritons for the realization of a low threshold source of coherent light, and for the generation of quantum correlated photons.

Keywords

microcavity lasers; optical parametric oscillators; polaritons; quantum entanglement; bosonic statistics; cavity polaritons; exciton-photon entangled state; micropillar cavities; optical parametric oscillator; polariton laser; quantum correlated photon; quantum degeneracy; semiconductor microcavity; Laser excitation; Microcavities; Optical arrays; Optical coupling; Optical pumping; Quantum entanglement; Resonance; Semiconductor nanostructures; Stationary state; Temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5192451

Filename

5192451