DocumentCode
520673
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
fYear
2010
fDate
16-21 May 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
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
Type
conf
Filename
5500263
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