Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Polariton-driven phonon laser

  • D. L. Chafatinos,
  • A. S. Kuznetsov,
  • S. Anguiano,
  • A. E. Bruchhausen,
  • A. A. Reynoso,
  • K. Biermann,
  • P. V. Santos,
  • A. Fainstein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18358-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Efficient generation of phonons is an important ingredient for a prospective electrically-driven phonon laser for coherent control of quantum systems. Here, the authors report on laser-like phonon emission in a hybrid semiconductor microcavity that optomechanically couples BEC polaritons with phonons.