Propagating Polaritons in III-Nitride Slab Waveguides
Abstract
We report on III-nitride waveguides with c-plane GaN/AlGaN quantum wells in the strong light-matter coupling regime supporting propagating polaritons. They feature a normal mode splitting as large as 60 meV at low temperatures thanks to the large overlap between the optical mode and the active region, a polariton decay length up to 100 m for photon-like polaritons and lifetime of 1-2 ps; with the latter values being essentially limited by residual absorption occurring in the waveguide. The fully lattice-matched nature of the structure allows for very low disorder and high in-plane homogeneity; an important asset for the realization of polaritonic integrated circuits that could support nonlinear polariton wavepackets up to room temperature thanks to the large exciton binding energy of 40 meV.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1612.06360,
title = {Propagating Polaritons in III-Nitride Slab Waveguides},
author = {Joachim Ciers and Jonas G. Roch and Jean-François Carlin and Gwénolé Jacopin and Raphaël Butté and Nicolas Grandjean},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06360},
year = {2017}
}