Title :
Ultrafast control of polariton stimulated scattering in semiconductor microcavities
Author :
Christmann, Gabriel ; Coulson, Christopher ; Baumberg, Jeremy J. ; Pelekanos, Nikolaos T. ; Hatzopoulos, Zacharias ; Tsintzos, Simeon I. ; Savvidis, Pavlos G.
Author_Institution :
Cavendish Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Abstract :
We report high-speed electronic control of ultrafast polariton amplification in a semiconductor microcavity. A >90% reduction of the parametric scattering gain is obtained by tuning the intracavity electric field to turn on inter-well resonant tunneling.
Keywords :
Electrons; High speed optical techniques; Microcavities; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical scattering; Optical tuning; Resonance light scattering; Resonant tunneling devices; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
