Photon properties of light in semiconductor microcavities

doi:10.1007/s12200-009-0017-9

Front Optoelec Chin

2009, Vol. 2

Issue (3) : 345-349 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-009-0017-9

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Photon properties of light in semiconductor microcavities

Guangcun SHAN^1,2(

), Wei HUANG^1,3

1. Institute of Advanced Materials, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China; 2. State Key Laboratory of Information Functional Materials, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China; 3. Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore

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Abstract

Properties of atom-like emitters in cavities are successfully described by cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity-QED). In this work, we focus on the issue of the steady-state and spectral properties of the light emitted by a driven microcavity containing a quantum well (QW) with the excitonic interactions using simulation of fully quantum-mechanical treatment. The system is coherently pumped with laser, and it is found that depending on the relative values of pumping rate of stimulated emission, either one or two peaks close to the excitation energy of the QW or to the natural frequency of the cavity are shown in the emission spectrum. Furthermore, the nonclassical proprieties of the emitted photon have been investigated. This excitonic system presents several dynamical and statistical similarities to the atomic system, in particular for the bad-cavity and good-cavity limits. The results show that the photon emission can be significantly amplified due to the coupling strength between a single emitter and radiation field in the microcavity, and it is concluded that the present semiconductor microcavity system may serve as a QW laser with low threshold.

Keywords quantum well (QW) photon exciton exciton-photon interaction microcavity

Corresponding Author(s): SHAN Guangcun,Email:041055004@fudan.edu.cn

Issue Date: 05 September 2009

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Wei HUANG,Guangcun SHAN. Photon properties of light in semiconductor microcavities[J]. Front Optoelec Chin, 2009, 2(3): 345-349.

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Fig.1 Mean photon number versus pump strength for various values of with excitonic interaction parameter =0.1 and = 1 MHz

Fig.2 Mean photon number versus pump strength and coupling strength for =1 MHz with excitonic interaction parameter =0.1

Fig.3 Power spectral () versus detuning frequency for various coherent pump strength . (a) =1; (b) =10

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