Optical control of polaritons: from optoelectronic to spinoptronic device concepts

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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.

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1. R. Binder, S. M. H. Luk, N. H. Kwong, P. Lewandowski, S. Schumacher, O. Lafont, E. Baudin, J. Tignon , A. Lemaitre, J. Bloch, Ch. K. P. Chan, P. T. Leung, "Optical control of polaritons: from optoelectronic to spinoptronic device concepts", Proc. SPIE 10193, Ultrafast Bandgap Photonics II, 101930G (8 May 2017); doi: 10.1117/12.2263383; http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2263383
2. 0277-786X
3. 10.1117/12.2263383
4. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626497
5. http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/626497
6. 1996-756X
7. ULTRAFAST BANDGAP PHOTONICS II

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Polaritons

semiconductor microcavities

optical switching

optical spin Hall effect

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/626497
Date	08 May 2017
Creators	Binder, 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.
Contributors	Univ 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)
Publisher	SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING
Source Sets	University of Arizona
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Article
Rights	© (2017) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).
Relation	http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?doi=10.1117/12.2263383