Polaritonic devices

T. C.H. Liew; I. A. Shelykh; G. Malpuech

doi:10.1016/j.physe.2011.04.003

Polaritonic devices

T. C.H. Liew, I. A. Shelykh, G. Malpuech

Faculty of Physical Sciences

University of Iceland

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Abstract

We review the current hopes for applications of excitonpolaritons in semiconductor microcavities. These quasi-particles have become distinguished in recent years for a variety of different effects including BoseEinstein condensation, ballistic spin current propagation and polarisation sensitive bistability. BoseEinstein condensation is related to ultra low-threshold lasing, which has been demonstrated at room temperature and currently captures a significant research effort towards electrical carrier injection. Inspired by spintronics, the spin structure of polaritons gives rise to the field of spinoptronics, which presents optical analogues of the Datta and Das transistor and AharonovBohm ring interferometer. Bistability, enhanced with the polarisation degree of freedom, gives rise to long-living spin memory elements, spin logic gates and polariton neurons for the construction of all-optical and hybrid optoelectronic circuits.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1543-1568
Number of pages	26
Journal	Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
Volume	43
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2011.04.003
Publication status	Published - Jul 2011

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Funding Information: TCHL was supported by NCCR Quantum Photonics (NCCR QP), research instrument of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). G.M. wishes to thank Dmitry Solnyshkov for discussions and corrections to the text, the CNRS-RFBR PICS project and FP7 ITN Spin-Optronics (237252).

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