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An electrically pumped phonon-polariton laser

Applied Physics 2018-08-30 v1

Abstract

We report a device that provides coherent emission of phonon polaritons, a mixed state between photons and optical phonons in an ionic crystal. An electrically pumped GaInAs/AlInAs quantum cascade structure provides intersubband gain into the polariton mode at = 26.3 \mu m, allowing self-oscillations close to the longitudinal optical phonon energy of AlAs. Because of the large computed phonon fraction of the polariton of 65%, the emission appears directly on a Raman spectrum measurement exhibiting a Stokes and anti-Stokes component with the expected shift of 48 meV.

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@article{arxiv.1808.09844,
  title  = {An electrically pumped phonon-polariton laser},
  author = {Keita Ohtani and Bo Meng and Martin Franckié and Lorenzo Bosco and Camille Ndebeka-Bandou and Mattias Beck and Jérôme Faist},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.09844},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Supplementary materials are appended at the end of the main text

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