Single-shot condensation of exciton polaritons and the hole burning effect

E. Estrecho; T. Gao; N. Bobrovska; M. D. Fraser; M. Steger; L. Pfeiffer; K. West; T. C. H. Liew; M. Matuszewski; D. W. Snoke; A. G. Truscott; E. A. Ostrovskaya

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05349-4

Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Single-shot condensation of exciton polaritons and the hole burning effect

E. Estrecho,
T. Gao,
N. Bobrovska,
M. D. Fraser,
M. Steger,
L. Pfeiffer,
K. West,
T. C. H. Liew,
M. Matuszewski,
D. W. Snoke,
A. G. Truscott,
E. A. Ostrovskaya

Affiliations

E. Estrecho: ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies and Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University
T. Gao: ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies and Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University
N. Bobrovska: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
M. D. Fraser: JST, PRESTO
M. Steger: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh
L. Pfeiffer: Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
K. West: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton University
T. C. H. Liew: Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, College of Science, Nanyang Technological University
M. Matuszewski: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
D. W. Snoke: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh
A. G. Truscott: Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University
E. A. Ostrovskaya: ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies and Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05349-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The mechanism for exciton-polariton condensation in the presence of an incoherent reservoir has been long debated. Here the authors demonstrate the role of the spatial hole burning in condensation of long‐lived exciton polaritons by imaging the condensates in a single-shot excitation regime.

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ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
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