Room-temperature polariton lasing in semiconductor microcavities
Room-temperature polariton lasing in semiconductor microcavities
We observe a room-temperature low-threshold transition to a coherent polariton state in bulk GaN microcavities in the strong-coupling regime. Nonresonant pulsed optical pumping produces rapid thermalization and yields a clear emission threshold of 1 mW, corresponding to an absorbed energy density of 29 µJ cm-2, 1 order of magnitude smaller than the best optically pumped (In,Ga)N quantum well surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). Angular and spectrally resolved luminescence show that the polariton emission is beamed in the normal direction with an angular width of ± 5deg and spatial size around 5 µm.
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Christopoulos, S.
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Grundy, A.J.D.
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Lagoudakis, P.G.
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Baumberg, J.J.
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Christmann, G.
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Butté, R.
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Feltin, E.
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Carlin, J.-F.
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Grandjean, N.
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21 March 2007
Christopoulos, S.
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Baldassarri Höger von Högersthal, G.
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Grundy, A.J.D.
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Lagoudakis, P.G.
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Kavokin, A.V.
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Baumberg, J.J.
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Christmann, G.
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Butté, R.
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Feltin, E.
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Carlin, J.-F.
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Grandjean, N.
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Christopoulos, S., Baldassarri Höger von Högersthal, G., Grundy, A.J.D., Lagoudakis, P.G., Kavokin, A.V., Baumberg, J.J., Christmann, G., Butté, R., Feltin, E., Carlin, J.-F. and Grandjean, N.
(2007)
Room-temperature polariton lasing in semiconductor microcavities.
Physical Review Letters, 98 (12), .
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.126405).
Abstract
We observe a room-temperature low-threshold transition to a coherent polariton state in bulk GaN microcavities in the strong-coupling regime. Nonresonant pulsed optical pumping produces rapid thermalization and yields a clear emission threshold of 1 mW, corresponding to an absorbed energy density of 29 µJ cm-2, 1 order of magnitude smaller than the best optically pumped (In,Ga)N quantum well surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). Angular and spectrally resolved luminescence show that the polariton emission is beamed in the normal direction with an angular width of ± 5deg and spatial size around 5 µm.
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Published date: 21 March 2007
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S. Christopoulos
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G. Baldassarri Höger von Högersthal
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A.J.D. Grundy
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P.G. Lagoudakis
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N. Grandjean
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