All-optical linear-polarization engineering in single and coupled exciton-polariton condensates
All-optical linear-polarization engineering in single and coupled exciton-polariton condensates
We demonstrate all-optical linear polarization control in semiconductor microcavities using an exciton-polariton condensate in an elliptically shaped optical trap. The microcavity inherent TE-TM splitting lifts the pseudospin degeneracy of the anisotropic trap ground state. The emerging fine structure modes are shown to be polarized linearly parallel and perpendicular to the trap major axis. We demonstrate polariton condensation into the excited pseudospin mode with high degree of linear polarization which rotates as we rotate the trap. We then extend our study to a system of two coupled linearly polarized condensates and demonstrate rich spin dynamics reflecting spontaneous synchronization and high correlation between the condensate pseudospins as a function of pump parameters. Our findings show a new type of polarization control with exciting perspectives in both spinoptronics and studies on extended systems of interacting nonlinear optical elements with anisotropic coupling strength and adjustable fine structure.
Polariton, Polariton Condensate, Microcavity, Semiconductor Microcavity polariton, polarization control
Gnusov, Ivan
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Sigurdsson, Helgi
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Toepfer, Julian, Dominic
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Baryshev, Stepan
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Alyatkin, Sergey
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Lagoudakis, Pavlos
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8 September 2021
Gnusov, Ivan
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Sigurdsson, Helgi
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Toepfer, Julian, Dominic
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Baryshev, Stepan
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Alyatkin, Sergey
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Lagoudakis, Pavlos
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Gnusov, Ivan, Sigurdsson, Helgi, Toepfer, Julian, Dominic, Baryshev, Stepan, Alyatkin, Sergey and Lagoudakis, Pavlos
(2021)
All-optical linear-polarization engineering in single and coupled exciton-polariton condensates.
Physical Review Applied, 16, [034014].
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.16.034014).
Abstract
We demonstrate all-optical linear polarization control in semiconductor microcavities using an exciton-polariton condensate in an elliptically shaped optical trap. The microcavity inherent TE-TM splitting lifts the pseudospin degeneracy of the anisotropic trap ground state. The emerging fine structure modes are shown to be polarized linearly parallel and perpendicular to the trap major axis. We demonstrate polariton condensation into the excited pseudospin mode with high degree of linear polarization which rotates as we rotate the trap. We then extend our study to a system of two coupled linearly polarized condensates and demonstrate rich spin dynamics reflecting spontaneous synchronization and high correlation between the condensate pseudospins as a function of pump parameters. Our findings show a new type of polarization control with exciting perspectives in both spinoptronics and studies on extended systems of interacting nonlinear optical elements with anisotropic coupling strength and adjustable fine structure.
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Accepted/In Press date: 12 August 2021
Published date: 8 September 2021
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The authors acknowledge the support of the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant EP/M025330/1 on Hybrid Polaritonics) and by RFBR according to the research projects No. 20-02-00919. H.S. and P.L. acknowledge the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program, through a FET Open research and innovation action under the grant agreement No. 899141 (PoLLoC). H.S. acknowledges the Icelandic Research Fund, grant No. 217631-051.
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Polariton, Polariton Condensate, Microcavity, Semiconductor Microcavity polariton, polarization control
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/450898
ISSN: 2331-7019
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