Vacuum Rabi splitting enhances resonant optical nonlinearity in semiconductor quantum well microcavity exciton system

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Abstract

Electromagnetic induced transparency (EIT) in condensed media, especially in a semiconductor, is attractive for nonlinear applications, because of its high density, compactness, and flexibility in artificial design. However, fast relaxation time and fermionic character of electrons obstructs the realization of EIT in semiconductor materials. We propose a resonant parametric conversion scheme which is applicable to the semiconductor quantum well (QW) microcavity (MC) exciton system. Because of its large oscillator strength, the semiconductor QW MC excitons show the large vacuum Rabi splitting which can be larger than the phase relaxation broadening of the media. It is found that when the coupling strength of the MC mode and the medium transition is larger than any other Rabi frequency and relaxation rate, the nonlinear susceptibility term becomes dominant compared to the linear susceptibility term.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCLEO/Pacific Rim 1999 - Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1125-1126
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)0780356616, 9780780356610
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1999
Event1999 Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO/Pacific Rim 1999 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 1999 Aug 301999 Sept 3

Publication series

NameCLEO/Pacific Rim 1999 - Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
Volume4

Conference

Conference1999 Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO/Pacific Rim 1999
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period99/8/3099/9/3

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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