Dynamic condensation of microcavity exciton polaritons

Author

Weihs, Gregor ; Deng, Hui ; Santori, Charles ; Yamamoto, Yusaku

Author_Institution

RCAST, Tokyo Univ., Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

183

Abstract

This work shows that polaritons, the quasi-particles formed as the eigenmodes of the interacting photon-exciton system in a microcavity-quantum well, can indeed exhibit dynamic condensation. The investigation used GaAs/AlAs quantum wells embedded at the antinodes of a microcavity formed by distributed Bragg reflectors grown in the same material system by molecular beam epitaxy. The system is pumped by a ps mode-locked laser on resonance with the exciton line at large in-plane momentum, corresponding to a large external angle.

Keywords

Bose-Einstein condensation; III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; distributed Bragg reflectors; excitons; gallium arsenide; laser mode locking; microcavities; optical pumping; polaritons; semiconductor quantum wells; GaAs-AlGaAs; GaAs/AlAs quantum wells; distributed Bragg reflectors; dynamic condensation; eigenmodes; microcavity exciton; microcavity-quantum well; mode-locked laser; molecular beam epitaxy; photon-exciton system; picosecond laser; polaritons; quasiparticles; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Excitons; Gallium arsenide; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Microcavities; Molecular beam epitaxial growth; Optical materials; Pump lasers; Quantum well lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7733-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EQEC.2003.1314040

Filename

1314040