Coherent oscillations between orbital angular momentum polariton states in an elliptic resonator

Gael Nardin; Yoan Léger; Barbara Pietka; Francois Morier-Genoud; Benoit Deveaud-Pledran

doi:10.1117/1.3609825

1 January 2011 Coherent oscillations between orbital angular momentum polariton states in an elliptic resonator

Gael Nardin, Yoan Léger, Barbara Pietka, Francois Morier-Genoud, Benoit Deveaud-Pledran

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Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 053517 (January 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3609825

Abstract

We optically excited the eigenmodes of an elliptic resonator in a semiconductor microcavity. Using a pulsed excitation, we created a superposition of eigenmodes, and imaged the temporal evolution of the coherent emission pattern. A semiconductor quantum well was embedded in the microcavity structure. The system was operated in the strong light matter coupling regime, where the eigenmodes are hybrid half-photonic half-excitonic quasiparticles called exciton polaritons. Oscillations between orbital angular momentum states (or vortex states) were observed, and turned out to be remarkably well described within the Poincaré sphere representation.

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Gael Nardin, Yoan Léger, Barbara Pietka, Francois Morier-Genoud, and Benoit Deveaud-Pledran "Coherent oscillations between orbital angular momentum polariton states in an elliptic resonator," Journal of Nanophotonics 5(1), 053517 (1 January 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3609825

Published: 1 January 2011

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