Room temperature polariton lasing vs. photon lasing in a ZnO-based hybrid microcavity

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5530-5537

  Lu, Tien Chang ^a   Lai, Ying Yu ^a   Lan, Yu Pin ^a   Huang, Si Wei ^a   Chen, Jun Rong ^a   Wu, Yung Chi ^a   Hsieh, Wen Feng ^a   Deng, Hui ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROCAVITIES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHONONS; QUANTUM THEORY; ZINC OXIDE;

BLUE SHIFT; DETUNINGS; EMISSION PEAKS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HYBRID MICROCAVITY; LINEWIDTH BROADENING; POLARITONS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRONG-COUPLING REGIME; THRESHOLD POWER DENSITY; WEAK-COUPLING REGIME;

PHOTONS;

ZINC OXIDE;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; PHOTON; TEMPERATURE;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; PHOTONS; TEMPERATURE; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84857607624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.005530     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. C. Weisbuch, M. Nishioka, A. Ishikawa, and Y. Arakawa, "Observation of the coupled exciton-photon mode splitting in a semiconductor quantum microcavity, " Phys. Rev. Lett. 69(23), 3314-3317 (1992).
2. H. Den, H. Haug, and Y. Yamamoto, "Exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensation, " Rev. Mod. Phys. 82(2), 1489-1537 (2010).
3. H. Deng, G. Weihs, C. Santori, J. Bloch, and Y. Yamamoto, "Condensation of semiconductor microcavity exciton polaritons, " Science 298(5591), 199-202 (2002).
4. J. Kasprzak, M. Richard, S. Kundermann, A. Baas, P. Jeambrun, J. M. J. Keeling, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, R. André, J. L. Staehli, V. Savona, P. B. Littlewood, B. Deveaud, and S. Dang, "Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton polaritons, " Nature 443(7110), 409-414 (2006). (Pubitemid 44477272)
5. R. Balili, V. Hartwell, D. Snoke, L. Pfeiffer, and K. West, "Bose-Einstein condensation of microcavity polaritons in a trap, " Science 316(5827), 1007-1010 (2007). (Pubitemid 46799484)
6. S. Utsunomiya, L. Tian, G. Roumpos, C. W. Lai, N. Kumada, T. Fujisawa, M. Kuwata-Gonokami, A. Löffler, S. Höfling, A. Forchel, and Y. Yamamoto, "Observation of Bogoliubov excitations in exciton-polariton condensates, " Nat. Phys. 4(9), 700-705 (2008).
7. H. Deng, G. Weihs, D. Snoke, J. Bloch, and Y. Yamamoto, "Polariton lasing vs. photon lasing in a semiconductor microcavity, " Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100(26), 15318-15323 (2003). (Pubitemid 38020987)
8. S. Christopoulos, G. B. von Högersthal, A. J. D. Grundy, P. G. Lagoudakis, A. V. Kavokin, J. J. Baumberg, G. Christmann, R. Butté, E. Feltin, J.-F. Carlin, and N. Grandjean, "Room-temperature polariton lasing in semiconductor microcavities, " Phys. Rev. Lett. 98(12), 126405 (2007).
9. G. Christmann, R. Butté, E. Feltin, J.-F. Carlin, and N. Grandjean, "Room temperature polariton lasing in a GaN/AlGaN multiple quantum well microcavity, " Appl. Phys. Lett. 93(5), 051102 (2008).
10. J. J. Baumberg, A. V. Kavokin, S. Christopoulos, A. J. D. Grundy, R. Butté, G. Christmann, D. D. Solnyshkov, G. Malpuech, G. B. von Högersthal, E. Feltin, J.-F. Carlin, and N. Grandjean, "Spontaneous polarization buildup in a room-temperature polariton laser, " Phys. Rev. Lett. 101(13), 136409 (2008).
11. J. Levrat, R. Butté, T. Christian, M. Glauser, E. Feltin, J.-F. Carlin, N. Grandjean, and Y. G. Rubo, "Pinning and depinning of the polarization of exciton-polariton condensates at room temperature, " Phys. Rev. Lett. 104(16), 166402 (2010).
12. J. J. Baumberg, P. G. Savvidis, R. M. Stevenson, A. I. Tartakovskii, M. S. Skolnick, D. M. Whittaker, and J. S. Roberts, "Parametric oscillation in a vertical microcavity: A polariton condensate or micro-optical parametric oscillation, " Phys. Rev. B 62(24), R16247-R16250 (2000). (Pubitemid 32372701)
13. C. Diederichs, J. Tignon, G. Dasbach, C. Ciuti, A. Lemaître, J. Bloch, Ph. Roussignol, and C. Delalande, "Parametric oscillation in vertical triple microcavities, " Nature 440(7086), 904-907 (2006).
14. L. Ferrier, S. Pigeon, E. Wertz, M. Bamba, P. Senellart, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaître, C. Ciuti, and J. Bloch, "Polariton parametric oscillation in a single micropillar cavity, " Appl. Phys. Lett. 97(3), 031105 (2010).
15. K. Davis, M. Mewes, M. Andrews, N. van Druten, D. Durfee, D. Kurn, and W. Ketterle, "Bose-Einstein condensation in a gas of sodium atoms, " Phys. Rev. Lett. 75(22), 3969-3973 (1995).
16. I. R. Sellers, F. Semond, M. Leroux, J. Massies, M. Zamfirescu, F. Stokker-Cheregi, M. Gurioli, A. Vinattieri, M. Colocci, A. Tahraoui, and A. A. Khalifa, "Polariton emission and reflectivity in GaN microcavities as a function of angle and temperature, " Phys. Rev. B 74(19), 193308 (2006).
17. M. Zamfirescu, A. Kavokin, B. Gil, G. Malpuech, and M. Kaliteevski, "ZnO as a material mostly adapted for the realization of room-temperature polariton lasers, " Phys. Rev. B 65(16), 161205 (2002).
18. J.-R. Chen, T.-C. Lu, Y.-C. Wu, S.-C. Lin, W.-R. Liu, W.-F. Hsieh, C.-C. Kuo, and C.-C. Lee, "Large vacuum Rabi splitting in ZnO-based hybrid microcavities observed at room temperature, " Appl. Phys. Lett. 94(6), 061103 (2009).
19. J.-R. Chen, T.-C. Lu, Y.-C. Wu, S.-C. Lin, W.-F. Hsieh, S.-C. Wang, and H. Deng, "Characteristics of excitonpolaritons in ZnO-based hybrid microcavities, " Opt. Express 19(5), 4101-4112 (2011).
20. S. Kalusniak, S. Sadofev, S. Halm, and F. Henneberger, "Vertical cavity surface emitting laser action of an all monolithic ZnO-based microcavity, " Appl. Phys. Lett. 98(1), 011101 (2011).
21. M. Zamfirescu, A. Kavokin, B. Gil, and G. Malpuech, "ZnO as a material mostly adapted for realization of room-temperature polariton lasers, " Phys. Status Solidi 195(3), 563-567 (2003) (a).
22. S. Faure, T. Guillet, P. Lefebvre, T. Bretagnon, and B. Gil, "Comparison of strong coupling regimes in bulk GaAs, GaN, and ZnO semiconductor microcavities, " Phys. Rev. B 78(23), 235323 (2008).
23. F. Tassone, C. Piermarocchi, V. Savona, A. Quattropani, and P. Schwendimann, "Bottleneck effects in the relaxation and photoluminescence of microcavity polaritons, " Phys. Rev. B 56(12), 7554-7563 (1997).
24. A. I. Tartakovskii, M. Emam-Ismail, R. M. Stevenson, M. S. Skolnick, V. N. Astratov, D. M. Whittaker, J. J. Baumberg, and J. S. Roberts, "Relaxation bottleneck and its suppression in semiconductor microcavities, " Phys. Rev. B 62(4), R2283-R2286 (2000).
25. R. Butté, J. Levrat, G. Christmann, E. Feltin, J.-F. Carlin, and N. Grandjean, "Phase diagram of a polariton laser from cryogenic to room temperature, " Phys. Rev. B 80(23), 233301 (2009).
26. P. G. Lagoudakis, M. D. Martin, J. J. Baumberg, G. Malpuech, and A. Kavokin, "Coexistence of low threshold lasing and strong coupling in microcavities, " J. Appl. Phys. 95(5), 2487 (2004).
27. J. Dai, C. X. Xu, K. Zheng, C. G. Lv, and Y. P. Cui, "Whispering gallery-mode lasing in ZnO microrods at room temperature, " Appl. Phys. Lett. 95(24), 241110 (2009).
28. M. H. Huang, S. Mao, H. Feick, H. Yan, Y. Wu, H. Kind, E. Weber, R. Russo, and P. Yang, "Room-temperature ultraviolet nanowire nanolasers, " Science 292(5523), 1897-1899 (2001). (Pubitemid 32538361)
29. V. M. Markushev, V. V. Ursaki, M. V. Ryzhkov, C. M. Briskina, I. M. Tiginyanu, E. V. Rusu, and A. A. Zakhidov, "ZnO lasing in complex systems with tetrapods, " Appl. Phys. B 93(1), 231-238 (2008).
30. C. Klingshirn, R. Hauschild, J. Fallert, and H. Kalt, "Room-temperature stimulated emission of ZnO: Alternatives to excitonic lasing, " Phys. Rev. B 75(11), 115203 (2007).
31. C. H. Henry, "Theory of the Linewidth of Semiconductor Lasers, " IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 18(2), 259-264 (1982).
32. A. P. D. Love, D. N. Krizhanovskii, D. M. Whittaker, R. Bouchekioua, D. Sanvitto, S. A. Rizeiqi, R. Bradley, M. S. Skolnick, P. R. Eastham, R. André, and S. Dang, "Intrinsic decoherence mechanisms in the microcavity polariton condensate, " Phys. Rev. Lett. 101(6), 067404 (2008).
33. D. M. Whittaker and P. R. Eastham, "Coherence properties of the microcavity polariton condensate, " Europhys. Lett. 87(2), 27002 (2009).
34. H. Haug and S. Koch, "On the Theory of Laser Action in Dense Exciton System, " Phys. Status Solidi 82(2), 531-543 (1977) (b). (Pubitemid 8570239)
35. H. Deng, G. S. Solomon, R. Hey, K. H. Ploog, and Y. Yamamoto, "Spatial coherence of a polariton condensate, " Phys. Rev. Lett. 99(12), 126403 (2007).
36. C. W. Lai, N. Y. Kim, S. Utsunomiya, G. Roumpos, H. Deng, M. D. Fraser, T. Byrnes, P. Recher, N. Kumada, T. Fujisawa, and Y. Yamamoto, "Coherent zero-state and π-state in an exciton-polariton condensate array, " Nature 450(7169), 529-532 (2007). (Pubitemid 350190252)