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We demonstrate experimentally the condensation of exciton-polaritons through optical trapping. The non-resonant pump profile is shaped into a ring and projected to a high quality factor microcavity where it forms a 2D repulsive optical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Askitopoulos , H. Ohadi , Z. Hatzopoulos , P. G. Savvidis , A. V. Kavokin , P. G. Lagoudakis

We observe ground-state polariton condensation in a two dimensional GaAs/AlAs semiconductor microcavity under non resonant pulsed optical excitation. We resolve the formation of a polariton condensate by studying the spatial, angular,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-23 M. Maragkou , A. J. D. Grundy , P. G. Lagoudakis

Polariton lattice condensates provide a platform for on chip quantum emulations. Interactions in extended polariton lattices are currently limited by the intrinsic photonic disorder of microcavities. Here, we fabricate a strain compensated…

Optical bistability of exciton polaritons in semiconductor microcavities is a promising platform for digital optical devices. Steady states of coherently driven polaritons can be toggled in tens of picoseconds by a short external pulse of…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 A. V. Uvarov , S. S. Gavrilov , V. D. Kulakovskii , N. A. Gippius

We explore nonlinear transitions of polariton wavepackets, first, to a soliton and then to a standing wave polariton condensate in a multi-mode microwire system. At low polariton density we observe ballistic propagation of the multi-mode…

The first realization of a polariton condensate was recently achieved in a CdTe microcavity [Kasprzak et al., Nature 443, 409 (2006)]. We compare the experimental phase boundaries, for various detunings and cryostat temperatures, with those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-23 F. M. Marchetti , M. H. Szymanska , J. Keeling , J. Kasprzak , R. Andre , P. B. Littlewood , Le Si Dang

we investigate the transmission of probe laser beam in a coupled-cavity system with polaritons by using standard input-output relation of optical fields, and proposed a theoretical schema for realizing a polariton-based photonic transistor.…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-30 Zi-Fa Yu , Ju-Kui Xue , Jinkui Zhao , Wu-Ming Liu

We investigate the optical orientation, polarization pinning, and depolarization of optically confined semiconductor exciton-polariton condensates. We perform a complete mapping of the condensate polarization as a function of incident…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Ivan Gnusov , Helgi Sigurdsson , Stepan Baryshev , Timur Ermatov , Alexis Askitopoulos , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

When molecular transitions strongly couple to photon modes, they form hybrid light-matter modes called polaritons. Collective vibrational strong coupling is a promising avenue for control of chemistry, but this can be deterred by the large…

We investigate, theoretically and numerically, the spin dynamics of a two-component exciton-polariton condensate created and sustained by non-resonant spin-polarized optical pumping of a semiconductor microcavity. Using the open-dissipative…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-26 G. Li , T. C. H. Liew , O. A. Egorov , E. A. Ostrovskaya

The precise adjustment of the polariton condensate flow under incoherent excitation conditions is an indispensable prerequisite for polariton-based logic gate operations. In this report, an all-optical approach for steering the motion of a…

Microcavity polaritons, which at low temperatures can condense to a macroscopic coherent state, possess a polarization degree of freedom. This article discusses the phase diagram of such a system, showing the boundaries between differently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-17 Jonathan Keeling

We report on an on-chip routing device for propagating condensates of exciton-polaritons. This counterdirectional coupler implements signal control by a photonic microdisk potential, which couples two lithographically defined waveguides and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 M. Klaas , J. Beierlein , E. Rozas , S. Klembt , H. Suchomel , T. H. Harder , K. Winkler , M. Emmerling , H. Flayac , M. D. Martín , L. Viña , S. Höfling , C. Schneider

Condensation of exciton-polaritons has been recently observed in one-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides, exploiting the interplay of long-lived gap confined eigenmodes and negative mass polariton branches. Here we focus on the…

We observe spontaneously driven non-ground state polariton condensation in GaAs pillar microcavities under non-resonant optical excitation. We identify a regime where the interplay of exciton-exciton and pair polariton scattering can lead…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Maragkou , A. J. D. Grundy , E. Wertz , A. Lemaitre , I. Sagnes , P. Senellart , J. Bloch , P. G. Lagoudakis

We create exciton-polaritons in a zero-dimensional (0D) microcavity filled with organic ladder-type conjugated polymer in the strong light-matter interaction regime. Photonic confinement at wavelength scale is realized in the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Fabio Scafirimuto , Darius Urbonas , Ullrich Scherf , Rainer F. Mahrt , Thilo Stöferle

We develop the many-body theory of dipolar exciton-polaritons in an optical microcavity in crossed transverse electric and in-plane magnetic fields. Even for relatively weak fields, we reveal the existence of two minima in the bare…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-01 Timofey V. Maximov , Igor L. Kurbakov , Nina S. Voronova , Yurii E. Lozovik

Exciton-dipolaritons are investigated as a platform for realizing working elements of a polaritronic transistor. Exciton-dipolaritons are three-way superposition of cavity photons, direct and indirect excitons in a bilayer semiconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Patrick Serafin , Tim Byrnes , German Kolmakov

Perovskite microwires are promising candidates for integrated photonic systems due to their strong nonlinear optical response and inherent waveguiding capabilities. In this study, we focus on the directional emission properties of…

Gain and loss modulation are ubiquitous in nature. An exceptional point arises when both the eigenvectors and eigenvalues coalesce, which in a physical system can be achieved by engineering the gain and loss coefficients, leading to a wide…