Vectorial polariton solitons in semiconductor microcavities

doi:10.1364/OE.18.021219

Vectorial polariton solitons in semiconductor microcavities

W. L. Zhang and S. F. Yu »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 20, pp. 21219-21224 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.021219

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Abstract

This paper presents numerical studies of vectorial polariton solitons in semiconductor microcavities. In the simulation, polarization degree of freedom of the polariton fields is taken into consideration. In the bistable regime, bright and/or dark solitons are found to bifurcate from the homogonous solutions of the two circular polarization modes. The combinations of solitons in the two polarization directions can be bright-dark, dark-bright, bright-bright, and dark-dark.

OCIS Codes
(260.5430) Physical optics : Polarization
(140.3945) Lasers and laser optics : Microcavities

ToC Category:
Optics at Surfaces

History
Original Manuscript: July 13, 2010
Revised Manuscript: August 16, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: August 16, 2010
Published: September 22, 2010

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W. L. Zhang and S. F. Yu, "Vectorial polariton solitons in semiconductor microcavities," Opt. Express 18, 21219-21224 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-20-21219

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André, R.
Arakawa, Y.
Baas, A.
Bajoni, D.
Balili, R.
Ballarini, D.
Barbay, S.
Bloch, J.
Bouchoule, S.
Bramati, A.
Brambilla, M.
Carusotto, I.
Ciuti, C.
Dang, L. S.
Davoyan, A. R.
del Valle, E.
Deveaud-Plédran, B.
Egorov, O. A.
Eleuch, H.
Firth, W. J.
Gavrilov, S. S.
Giacobino, E.
Gippius, N. A.
Gorbach, A. V.
Hachair, X.
Hartwell, V.
Ishikawa, A.
Jäger, R.
Karr, J. Ph.
Kavokin, A.
Kavokin, A. V.
Kivshar, Y. S.
Krizhanovskii, D. N.
Kuszelewicz, R.
Lagoudakis, K. G.
Larionova, Y.
Laussy, F. P.
Lederer, F.
Lemaître, A.
Leyder, C.
Liew, T. C. H.
Lugiato, L.
Maggipinto, T.
Malpuech, G.
Martin, M. D.
Nishioka, M.
Panajotov, K.
Perrini, I.
Pfeiffer, L.
Richard, M.
Romanelli, M.
Rubo, Y. G.
Sanvitto, D.
Sarchi, D.
Savona, V.
Semenova, E.
Senellart, P.
Shadrivov, I. V.
Shelykh, I. A.
Skolnick, M. S.
Skryabin, D. V.
Snoke, D.
Solnyshkov, D. D.
Spinelli, L.
Stolz, W.
Tanguy, Y.
Tejedor, C.
Thienpont, H.
Tikhodeev, S. G.
Tissoni, G.
Viña, L.
Weisbuch, C.
Weiss, C. O.
Wertz, E.
West, K.
Wouter, M.
Wouters, M.
Yulin, A. V.

Nat. Phys.

K. G. Lagoudakis, M. Wouters, M. Richard, A. Baas, I. Carusotto, R. André, L. S. Dang, and B. Deveaud-Plédran, “Quantized vortices in an exciton-polariton condensate,” Nat. Phys. 4(9), 706–710 (2008). [CrossRef]

Nature

A. Amo, D. Sanvitto, F. P. Laussy, D. Ballarini, E. del Valle, M. D. Martin, A. Lemaître, J. Bloch, D. N. Krizhanovskii, M. S. Skolnick, C. Tejedor, and L. Viña, “Collective fluid dynamics of a polariton condensate in a semiconductor microcavity,” Nature 457(7227), 291–295 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Express

Opt. Lett.

Y. Larionova, W. Stolz, and C. O. Weiss, “Optical bistability and spatial resonator solitons based on exciton-polariton nonlinearity,” Opt. Lett. 33(4), 321–323 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Phys. Rev. A

A. V. Yulin, O. A. Egorov, F. Lederer, and D. V. Skryabin, “Dark polariton solitons in semiconductor microcavities,” Phys. Rev. A 78(6), 061801 (2008). [CrossRef]
A. Baas, J. Ph. Karr, H. Eleuch, and E. Giacobino, “Optical bistability in semiconductor microcavities,” Phys. Rev. A 69(2), 023809 (2004). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. B

D. Sarchi, M. Wouter, and V. Savona, “Polariton parametric photoluminescence in spatially inhomogeneous systems,” Phys. Rev. B 79(16), 165315 (2009). [CrossRef]
X. Hachair, G. Tissoni, H. Thienpont, and K. Panajotov, “Linearly polarized bistable localized structure in medium-size vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers,” Phys. Rev. B 79, 011801 (2009).

Phys. Rev. Lett.

O. A. Egorov, D. V. Skryabin, A. V. Yulin, and F. Lederer, “Bright cavity polariton solitons,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102(15), 153904 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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Phys. Status Solidi

C. Ciuti and I. Carusotto, “Quantum fluid effects and parametric instabilities in microcavities,” Phys. Status Solidi 242(11), 2224–2245 (2005). [CrossRef]

Science

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). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Superlattices Microstruct.

D. V. Skryabin, O. A. Egorov, A. V. Gorbach, and F. Lederer, “One-dimensional polariton solitons and soliton waveguiding in microcavities,” Superlattices Microstruct. 47(1), 5–9 (2010). [CrossRef]

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