Electrical and optical switching in the bistable regime of an electrically injected polariton laser
Abstract
We report on electrically and nonresonant optically induced switching in the bistable regime of an electrically pumped polariton laser. Electrical switching effects can be observed by adding controlled noise in the electrical pump of the system. Noise is expected to influence the hysteresis characteristics of a bistable device and determines its application robustness. We find that the hysteresis width decreases symmetrically with a linear dependency until we observe a quenching of the bistability at a certain noise level and the output of the system becomes monostable. Furthermore, we explore the possibility to switch between the two bistable branches by a nonresonant optical pulse. Our experimental findings can be described by a set of rate equations modeling the population dynamics with additional noise terms.
Citation
Klaas , M , Sigurdsson , H , Liew , T C H , Klembt , S , Amthor , M , Hartmann , F , Worschech , L , Schneider , C & Höfling , S 2017 , ' Electrical and optical switching in the bistable regime of an electrically injected polariton laser ' , Physical Review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics , vol. 96 , no. 4 , 041301 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.041301
Publication
Physical Review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1098-0121Type
Journal article
Rights
© 2017, American Physical Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at journals.aps.org / https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.041301
Description
The authors would like to thank the State of Bavaria for financial support. HS acknowledges support from the The Icelandic Research Fund, grant No. 163082-051. TL thanks the MOE Academic Research Fund for support.Collections
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