ISBN: 3-540-67520-5
TITLE: Semiconductor Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics
AUTHOR: Yamamoto, Y.; Tassone, F.; Cao, H.
TOC:

1. Introduction 1
1.1 Atomic Cavity QED 1
1.1.1 Emission in Free Space 1
1.1.2 Spontaneous Emission in a Cavity 2
1.1.3 Rabi Oscillations 3
1.1.4 One-Atom Masers/Lasers 4
1.2 Excitons 5
1.2.1 Excitons Versus ElectronHole Pairs 5
1.2.2 Excitonic Oscillator Strength 7
1.2.3 Bulk Exciton Polaritons 9
1.2.4 Quantum Well Excitons 11
1.3 Semiconductor Microcavities 14
1.3.1 Microcavity Geometries 14
1.3.2 Bragg Mirrors14
1.3.3 Planar DBR Microcavities 19
1.3.4 ExcitonPhoton Coupling 22
2. Microcavity Exciton Polaritons 25
2.1 Strong Coupling  Theory 25
2.1.1 Semiclassical Theory 26
2.1.2 Quantum Theory 28
2.2 Strong Coupling  Experiment 32
2.2.1 Microcavity Exciton Polariton Splitting and Oscillation 32
2.2.2 Collapse and Revival of Exciton Polariton Oscillation 33
2.3 Effect of Inhomogeneous Broadening 38
2.3.1 Exciton Polariton Ladder 38
2.3.2 Motional Narrowing 41
2.4 Effect of Electric and Magnetic Fields 43
2.5 Transition from Strong to Weak Coupling 43
3. Biexcitonic Effects in Microcavities 49
3.1 Excitons Versus Two-Level Atoms 49
3.2 ExcitonExciton Interaction 52
3.3 Biexcitonic Effects 54
4. Resonant Tunneling into Exciton and Polariton States 59
4.1 Resonant Tunneling into QW Exciton States  Theory 59
4.1.1 Hole-Assisted Resonant Tunneling of Electrons into QW Exciton States 59
4.1.2 Conventional Resonant Tunneling of Electrons 62
4.1.3 Exciton Formation by Hole-Assisted Resonant Tunneling of Electrons 63
4.1.4 Selective Creation of Excitons by Tunneling 68
4.2 Resonant Tunneling into QW Exciton States  Experiment 70
4.2.1 IV Measurement 70
4.2.2 LI Measurement 72
4.2.3 Tunneling Spectroscopy for QW Excitons 76
4.3 Stimulated Resonant Tunneling 77
4.3.1 Saturation of the Stimulated Current 79
4.3.2 Saturation of the Spontaneous Tunneling Current 82
4.4 Resonant Tunneling into Microcavity Exciton Polariton States 84
5. Competition Between Photon Lasing and Exciton Lasing 87
5.1 BoseEinstein Condensation of Excitons 87
5.2 Exciton Lasers (Bosers) 88
5.3 Exciton Polariton Bosers 91
5.4 PumpProbe Experiments 92
5.5 Effective-Mass Measurement 94
6. Polariton Dynamics in Photoluminescence 99
6.1 Introduction 99
6.2 Kinetic Equations 99
6.2.1 Radiative Recombination of Exciton Polaritons 102
6.2.2 PolaritonPhonon Scattering 102
6.2.3 ExcitonExciton Scattering 107
6.3 Integration of the Rate Equation: Results 110
6.4 Interface Disorder and Bottleneck Dynamics 113
6.5 Stimulated Scattering of Lower Polaritons: Theory 115
6.6 Stimulated Scattering of Lower Polaritons: Experiment 120
6.7 Saturation 125
7. Stimulated Emission of Exciton Polaritons 127
7.1 Introduction 127
7.2 Rate Equations and Threshold Behavior 129
7.3 Langevin Equations and Noise Properties 135
7.3.1 Polariton Squeezing. 138
7.3.2 Emission Linewidth 140
7.4 Observation of Polariton Oscillation 142
References 145
Index 153
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