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Optical control of polaritons: from optoelectronic to spinoptronic device concepts

Exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities have been studied intensely, both with respect to their intriguing fundamental physical properties and with respect to their potential in novel device designs. The latter requires ways to control polaritonic systems, and all-optical control mechanisms are considered to be especially useful. In this talk, we discuss and review our efforts to control the polariton density, utilizing optical four-wave mixing instabilites, and the spin or polarization textures resulting from the optical spin Hall effect. Both effects are readily observable in the cavity's far-field emission, and hence potentially useful for optoelectronic and spinoptronic device applications.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/626497
Date08 May 2017
CreatorsBinder, R., Luk, S. M. H., Kwong, N. H., Lewandowski, P., Schumacher, S., Lafont, O., Baudin, E., Tignon, J., Lemaitre, A., Bloch, J., Chan, Ch. K. P., Leung, P. T.
ContributorsUniv Arizona, Dept Phys, College of Optical Sciences, The Univ. of Arizona (United States), The Univ. of Arizona (United States), College of Optical Sciences, The Univ. of Arizona (United States), Univ. Paderborn (Germany), Univ. Paderborn (Germany), École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research Univ., CNRS (France), École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research Univ., CNRS (France), École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research Univ., CNRS (France), Lab. de Photonique et de Nanostructures, CNRS (France), Lab. de Photonique et de Nanostructures, CNRS (France), The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China), The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
PublisherSPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle
Rights© (2017) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).
Relationhttp://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?doi=10.1117/12.2263383

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