Ultra-Low Threshold Polariton Condensation: arXiv:1609.08109 [physics.optics]

  • Mark Steger
  • , Brian Fluegel
  • , Kirstin Alberi
  • , David Snoke
  • , Loren Pfeiffer
  • , Ken West
  • , Angelo Mascarenhas

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Abstract

We demonstrate condensation of microcavity polaritons with a very sharp threshold occuring at two orders of magnitude lower pump intensity than previous demonstrations of condensation. The long cavity-lifetime and trapping and pumping geometries are crucial to the realization of this low threshold. Polariton condensation, or 'polariton lasing' has long been proposed as a promising source of coherent light at lower threshold than traditional lasing, and these results suggest methods to bring this threshold even lower.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages4
JournalArXiv.org
StatePublished - 2016

Bibliographical note

Final version of this article published in Optics Letters: see NREL/JA-5K00-68052

NLR Publication Number

  • NREL/JA-5K00-67458

Keywords

  • condensation
  • lasing
  • polaritons

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