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Giant optomechanical coupling and dephasing protection with cavity exciton-polaritons

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2022-12-19 v1 Optics

Abstract

Electronic resonances can significantly enhance the photon-phonon coupling in cavity optomechanics, but are normally avoided due to absorption losses and dephasing by inhomogeneous broadening. We experimentally demonstrate that exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities enable GHz optomechanics with single-particle resonant couplings reaching record values in the 10s of MHz range. Moreover, this resonant enhancement is protected from inhomogeneous broadening by the Rabi gap. Single-polariton non-linearities and the optomechanical strong-coupling regime become accessible in this platform.

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@article{arxiv.2212.08269,
  title  = {Giant optomechanical coupling and dephasing protection with cavity exciton-polaritons},
  author = {P. Sesin and A. S. Kuznetsov and G. Rozas and S. Anguiano and A. E. Bruchhausen and A. Lemaître and K. Biermann and P. V. Santos and A. Fainstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.08269},
  year   = {2022}
}

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13 pages, 12 figures