Oriented polaritons in strongly-coupled asymmetric double quantum well microcavities

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Christmann, Gabriel ^a   Askitopoulos, Alexis ^b   Deligeorgis, George ^c   Hatzopoulos, Zacharias ^c   Tsintzos, Simeon I ^b,c   Savvidis, Pavlos G ^b,c   Baumberg, Jeremy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED SEMICONDUCTOR; DOUBLE QUANTUM WELL; ELECTRON LEVELS; ELECTRONIC TUNNELING; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; POLARITON-POLARITON SCATTERING; POLARITONS; SINGLE QUANTUM WELL;

ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS; MICROCAVITIES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLIDS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 79952090512     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3559909     Document Type: Article

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