Optical bistability in semiconductor microcavities

By A. Baas, J. Karr, Elisabeth Giacobino. 2003

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We report the observation of polaritonic bistability in semiconductor microcavities in the strong-coupling regime. The origin of bistability is the polariton-polariton interaction, which gives rise to a Kerr-like nonlinearity. The experimental results are in good agreement with a simple model taking transverse effects into account.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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3. T. Liew
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Citations in the corpus

• Signatures of a dissipative phase transition in photon correlation measurements (2017, background): “We focus on the extensively studied phenomenon of optical bistability in GaAs cavity-polaritons [13, 14], which can be described as a first-order dissipative phase transition [15–17].”
• Polariton polarization-sensitive phenomena in planar semiconductor microcavities (2009, methodology): “Usually, this happens at much higher pumping densities than those needed to observe polariton– polariton scattering (Baas et al 2004a).”