Ultra-Fast Stark-Induced Control of Polaritonic States
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2015-06-18 v1 Other Condensed Matter
Abstract
A laser pulse, several meV red-detuned from the excitonic line of a quantum well, has been shown to induce an almost instantaneous and rigid shift of the lower and upper polariton branches. Here we demonstrate that through this shift, ultra-fast all-optical control of the polariton population in a semiconductor microcavity should be achievable. In the proposed setup a Stark field is used to bring the lower polariton branch in or out of resonance with a quasi-resonant continuous-wave laser, thereby favoring or inhibiting the injection of polaritons into the cavity. Moreover we show that this technique allows for the implementation of optical switches with extremely high repetition rates.
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@article{arxiv.1402.0236,
title = {Ultra-Fast Stark-Induced Control of Polaritonic States},
author = {Emiliano Cancellieri and Alex Hayat and Aephraim Steinberg and Elisabeth Giacobino and Alberto Bramati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.0236},
year = {2015}
}