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Bistability in Microcavities with Incoherent Optical or Electrical Excitation

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2014-09-11 v1 Optics

Abstract

We consider a quantum well embedded in a zero-dimensional microcavity with a sub-wavelength grated mirror, where the x-linearly polarized exciton mode is strongly coupled to the cavity photon, while y-polarized excitons remain in the weak coupling regime. Under incoherent optical or electric pumping, we demonstrate polariton bistability associated with parametric scattering processes. Such bistability is useful for constructing polaritonic devices with optical or electrical incoherent pumping.

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@article{arxiv.1310.4130,
  title  = {Bistability in Microcavities with Incoherent Optical or Electrical Excitation},
  author = {O. Kyriienko and T. C. H. Liew and E. A. Ostrovskaya and O. A. Egorov and I. A. Shelykh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.4130},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures