Polariton multistability and fast linear-to-circular polarization conversion in planar microcavities with lowered symmetry

Gavrilov, S. S.; Sekretenko, A. V.; Novikov, S. I.; Schneider, C.; Höfling, Sven; Kamp, M.; Forchel, A.; Kulakovskii, V. D.

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07/01/2013

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Abstract

The multistability of cavity-polariton systems with lowered symmetry (e.g., in laterally strained microcavities) allows implementing a few picoseconds long switching from linear to almost circular polarization of the cavity transmission under a resonant linearly polarized optical pump with slowly changing intensity. This effect has been observed in a high-Q GaAs microcavity using spectrally narrow 70 ps long pump pulses.

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Gavrilov , S S , Sekretenko , A V , Novikov , S I , Schneider , C , Höfling , S , Kamp , M , Forchel , A & Kulakovskii , V D 2013 , ' Polariton multistability and fast linear-to-circular polarization conversion in planar microcavities with lowered symmetry ' , Applied Physics Letters , vol. 102 , no. 1 , 011104 . https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4773523

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Applied Physics Letters

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Peer reviewed

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https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4773523

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0003-6951

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Copyright 2013, American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters, Vol 102, Issue 1, and may be found at: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/102/1/10.1063/1.4773523

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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4323