Strong exciton-photon coupling in open semiconductor microcavities

Journal Article · Mon May 12 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4878504· OSTI ID:22273402

Dufferwiel, S.; Fras, F.; Walker, P. M.; Li, F.; Giriunas, L.; Makhonin, M. N.; Wilson, L. R.; Skolnick, M. S.; Krizhanovskii, D. N. ^[1]; Trichet, A.; Smith, J. M. ^[2]; Clarke, E. ^[3]

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1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH (United Kingdom)
2. Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PH (United Kingdom)
3. EPSRC National Centre for III-V Technologies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD (United Kingdom)

We present a method to implement 3-dimensional polariton confinement with in-situ spectral tuning of the cavity mode. Our tunable microcavity is a hybrid system consisting of a bottom semiconductor distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) with a cavity containing quantum wells (QWs) grown on top and a dielectric concave DBR separated by a micrometer sized gap. Nanopositioners allow independent positioning of the two mirrors and the cavity mode energy can be tuned by controlling the distance between them. When close to resonance, we observe a characteristic anticrossing between the cavity modes and the QW exciton demonstrating strong coupling. For the smallest radii of curvature concave mirrors of 5.6 μm and 7.5 μm, real-space polariton imaging reveals submicron polariton confinement due to the hemispherical cavity geometry.

• OSTI ID: 22273402
• Journal Information: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 104, Issue 19; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-6951
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
DIELECTRIC MATERIALS
EXCITONS
PHOTONS
QUANTUM WELLS
SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS
STRONG-COUPLING MODEL