Strong exciton-photon coupling in open semiconductor microcavities

We present a method to implement 3-dimensional polariton confinement with in-situ spectral tuning of the cavity mode. Our tunable microcavity is a hybrid system consisting of a bottom semiconductor distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) with a cavity containing quantum wells (QWs) grown on top and a dielectric concave DBR separated by a micrometer sized gap. Nanopositioners allow independent positioning of the two mirrors and the cavity mode energy can be tuned by controlling the distance between them. When close to resonance we observe a characteristic anticrossing between the cavity modes and the QW exciton demonstrating strong coupling. For the smallest radii of curvature concave mirrors of 5.6 $\mu$m and 7.5 $\mu$m real-space polariton imaging reveals submicron polariton confinement due to the hemispherical cavity geometry.

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Source https://hal.science/hal-00962244
Author Dufferwiel, S., Fras, F., Trichet, A., Walker, P. M., Li, F., Giriunas, L., Makhonin, M. N., Wilson, L. R., Smith, J. M., Skolnick, M. S., Krizhanovskii, D. N.
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Last Updated May 5, 2026, 23:07 (UTC)
Created May 5, 2026, 23:07 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00962244
Language en
contributor University of Sheffield [Sheffield]
creator Dufferwiel, S.
date 2014-03-19T00:00:00
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harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
metadata_modified 2024-11-22T00:00:00
relation info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/1403.4830
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