From Excitonic to Photonic Polariton Condensate in a ZnO-Based Microcavity

Feng Li, L. Orosz, O. Kamoun, S. Bouchoule, C. Brimont, P. Disseix, T. Guillet, X. Lafosse, M. Leroux, J. Leymarie, M. Mexis, M. Mihailovic, G. Patriarche, F. Réveret, D. Solnyshkov, J. Zuniga-Perez, and G. Malpuech
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 196406 – Published 10 May 2013
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Abstract

We report exciton-polariton condensation in a new family of fully hybrid ZnO-based microcavity demonstrating the best-quality ZnO material available (a bulk substrate), a large quality factor (4000) and large Rabi splittings (240meV). Condensation is achieved between 4 and 300 K and for excitonic fractions ranging between 17% and 96%, which corresponds to a tuning of the exciton-polariton mass, lifetime, and interaction constant by 1 order of magnitude. We demonstrate mode switching between polariton branches allowing, just by controlling the pumping power, to tune the photonic fraction by a factor of 4.

  • Received 20 December 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.196406

© 2013 American Physical Society

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Feng Li1,2, L. Orosz3, O. Kamoun4, S. Bouchoule5, C. Brimont4, P. Disseix3, T. Guillet4, X. Lafosse5, M. Leroux1, J. Leymarie3, M. Mexis4, M. Mihailovic3, G. Patriarche5, F. Réveret3, D. Solnyshkov3, J. Zuniga-Perez1, and G. Malpuech3

  • 1CRHEA-CNRS, Rue Bernard Gregory, 06560 Valbonne, France
  • 2Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, 06103 Nice, France
  • 3Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Clermont Université, CNRS and Université Blaise Pascal, 24 Avenue des Landais, 63177 Aubière cedex, France
  • 4Université de Montpellier 2, CNRS, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, UMR 5221, 34095 Montpellier, France
  • 5LPN-CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France

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Vol. 110, Iss. 19 — 10 May 2013

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