We demonstrate the simultaneous dressing of both vacuum-to-exciton and exciton-to-biexciton transitions of a single semiconductor quantum dot in a high-Q micropillar cavity, using photoluminescence spectroscopy. Resonant two-photon excitation of the biexciton is achieved by spectrally tuning the quantum dot emission with respect to the cavity mode. The cavity couples to both transitions and amplifies the Rabi-frequency of the likewise resonant cw laser, driving the transitions. We observe strong-field splitting of the emission lines, which depend on the driving Rabi field amplitude and the cavity-laser detuning. A dressed state theory of a driven 4-level atom correctly predicts the distinct spectral transitions observed in the emission spectrum, and a detailed description of the emission spectra is further provided through a polaron master equation approach which accounts for cavity coupling and acoustic phonon interactions of the semiconductor medium.
@article{arxiv.1509.03861,
title = {Cavity-enhanced simultaneous dressing of quantum dot exciton and biexciton states},
author = {Fabian Hargart and Markus Müller and Kaushik Roy-Choudhury and Simone Luca Portalupi and Christian Schneider and Sven Höfling and Martin Kamp and Stephen Hughes and Peter Michler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.03861},
year = {2016}
}