Tracking dark excitons with exciton polaritons in semiconductor microcavities
Tracking dark excitons with exciton polaritons in semiconductor microcavities
Dark excitons are of fundamental importance for a wide variety of processes in semiconductors but are difficult to investigate using optical techniques due to their weak interaction with light fields. We reveal and characterize dark excitons nonresonantly injected into a semiconductor microcavity structure containing InGaAs/GaAs quantum wells by a gated train of eight 100 fs pulses separated by 13 ns by monitoring their interactions with the bright lower polariton mode. We find a surprisingly long dark exciton lifetime of more than 20 ns, which is longer than the time delay between two consecutive pulses. This creates a memory effect that we clearly observe through the variation of the time-resolved transmission signal. We propose a rate equation model that provides a quantitative agreement with the experimental data.
Schmidt, D.
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Kahlert, M.
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Bayer, M.
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Schneider, C.
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Höfling, S.
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Sedov, E. S.
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Kavokin, A. V.
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Schmidt, D., Berger, B., Kahlert, M., Bayer, M., Schneider, C., Höfling, S., Sedov, E. S., Kavokin, A. V. and Aßmann, M.
(2019)
Tracking dark excitons with exciton polaritons in semiconductor microcavities.
Physical Review Letters, 122 (4), [047403].
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.047403).
Abstract
Dark excitons are of fundamental importance for a wide variety of processes in semiconductors but are difficult to investigate using optical techniques due to their weak interaction with light fields. We reveal and characterize dark excitons nonresonantly injected into a semiconductor microcavity structure containing InGaAs/GaAs quantum wells by a gated train of eight 100 fs pulses separated by 13 ns by monitoring their interactions with the bright lower polariton mode. We find a surprisingly long dark exciton lifetime of more than 20 ns, which is longer than the time delay between two consecutive pulses. This creates a memory effect that we clearly observe through the variation of the time-resolved transmission signal. We propose a rate equation model that provides a quantitative agreement with the experimental data.
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Tracking Dark Excitons with Exciton Polaritons in Semiconductor Microcavities
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Accepted/In Press date: 16 November 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 1 February 2019
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