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Topological lasers have been intensively investigated as a strong candidate for robust single-mode lasers. A typical topological laser employs a single-mode topological edge state, which appears deterministically in a designed topological…

We study the topological structure of matter-light excitations, so called polaritons, in a quantum spin Hall insulator coupled to photonic cavity modes. We identify a topological invariant in the presence of time reversal (TR) symmetry, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Alexander Janot , Bernd Rosenow , Gil Refael

Topological charges are the winding numbers of polarization vectors around the vortex centers of far-field radiation. In this work, the topological charge of photonic crystal modes is theoretically analyzed using an envelope function…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-22 Zhixin Wang , Yong Liang , Mattias Beck , Giacomo Scalari , Jérôme Faist

Nonlinear topological photonics is an emerging field aiming at extending the fascinating properties of topological states to the realm where interactions between the system constituents cannot be neglected. Interactions can indeed trigger…

We classify symmetry-protected and symmetry-breaking dynamical solutions for nonlinear saturable bosonic systems that display a non-hermitian charge-conjugation symmetry, as realized in a series of recent groundbreaking experiments with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Simon Malzard , Emiliano Cancellieri , Henning Schomerus

Exciton-polariton laser is a promising source of coherent light for low-energy applications due to its low-threshold operation. However, a detailed experimental study of its spectral purity, which directly affects its coherence properties…

Topological photonics provides a robust framework for strategically controlling light confinement and propagation dynamics. By exploiting the marriage between this notion and symmetry-constrained mode competition in an active setting, we…

We predict that the interplay between the spin-orbit coupling, stemming from the TE-TM energy splitting, and the Zeeman effect in semiconductor microcavities supporting exci- ton-polariton quasi-particles results in the appearance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Chunyan Li , Fangwei Ye , Xianfeng Chen , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Albert Ferrando , Lluis Torner , Dmitry V. Skryabin

We study a "strongly-coupled" (SC) polariton system formed between the atom-like intersubband transitions in a semiconductor nanostructure and the THz optical modes that are localised at the edges of a gold aperture. The polaritons can be…

The engineering of specialty lasers with unconventional mode structures is one of the modern challenges in the development of integrated coherent sources. Examples include the use of bound states in the continuum, microlasers with orbital…

Multi-level exciton-polariton systems offer an attractive platform for studies of non-linear optical phenomena. However, studies of such consequential non-linear phenomena as polariton condensation and lasing in planar microcavities have so…

We investigate an optically trapped exciton-polariton condensate and observe temporal coherence beyond 1~ns duration. Due to the reduction of the spatial overlap with the thermal reservoir of excitons, the coherence time of the trapped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-28 K. Orfanakis , A. F. Tzortzakakis , D. Petrosyan , P. G. Savvidis , H. Ohadi

We describe exciton-polariton modes formed by the interaction between excitons in a 2D layer of a transition metal dichalcogenide embedded in a cylindrical microcavity and the microcavity photons. For this, an expression for the excitonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 José Nuno S. Gomes , Carlos Trallero-Giner , Nuno M. R. Peres , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

Exciton-polaritons provide a versatile platform for the study of a wide range of phenomena, including polariton lasers, topological polaritons, and bosonic condensation. Transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers host excitons with large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Lukas Krelle , Lukas Husel , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ismail Bilgin , Alexander Högele , Farsane Tabataba-Vakili

We demonstrate topological defect lasers in a GaAs membrane with embedded InAs quantum dots. By introducing a disclination to a square-lattice of elliptical air holes, we obtain spatially confined optical resonances with high quality…

We report on the enhancement of the spin coherence time (T2) by almost an order-of-magnitude in exciton-polariton condensates through driven spin precession resonance. Using a rotating optical trap formed by a bichromatic laser excitation,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-14 Ivan Gnusov , Alexey Yulin , Stepan Baryshev , Sergey Alyatkin , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

We investigate topological lasers in combination of nonlinear, non-Hermitian and topological lattice systems based on a quench dynamics starting from one site. We consider explicitly the topological laser in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Motohiko Ezawa

Harnessing the unique features of topological materials for the development of a new generation of topological based devices is a challenge of paramount importance. Using Floquet scattering theory combined with atomistic models we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Matías Berdakin , Esteban A. Rodríguez-Mena , L. E. F. Foa Torres

We demonstrate spin polarized jets in extended systems of ballistic exciton-polariton condensates in semiconductor microcavities using optical non-resonant excitation geometries. The structure of the spin jets is determined by the digitally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Lucinda Pickup , Julian D. Töpfer , Helgi Sigurdsson , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

Topological insulator lasers are a newly introduced kind of lasers in which light snakes around a cavity without scattering. Like for an electron current in a topological insulator material, a topologically protected lasing mode travels…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-19 S. Longhi , Y. Kominis , V. Kovanis