Nonlinear optics of coupled semiconductor microcavities

Year: 1998

Authors: Carusotto I., La Rocca G.C.

Autors Affiliation: Scuola Normale Superiore, INFM, I-56126 Pisa, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, Italy

Abstract: In a coupled microcavity configuration with Ken optical nonlinearities in the external as well as in the central distributed Bragg reflectors, the energies of the closely spaced doublet of delocalized photon eigenmodes change with increasing light intensity. One beam optical bistability as well as all optical switching in a pump and probe configuration can be realized. The nonlinearity can induce a novel kind of Rabi anticrossing between a photonic mode and a nearly resonating quantum well exciton. Realistic numerical simulations of such effects in AlGaAs based microstructures are presented. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.

Journal/Review: PHYSICS LETTERS A

Volume: 243 (4)      Pages from: 236  to: 242

KeyWords: semiconductor microcavities; distributed Bragg reflectors; Rabi splitting; nonlinear optics
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(98)00230-8

Citations: 6
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