TY - GEN
T1 - Vacuum Rabi splitting enhances resonant optical nonlinearity in semiconductor quantum well microcavity exciton system
AU - Takeoka, M.
AU - Kaunari, F.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1109/CLEOPR.1999.814695
DO - 10.1109/CLEOPR.1999.814695
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0033310064
T3 - CLEO/Pacific Rim 1999 - Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
SP - 1125
EP - 1126
BT - CLEO/Pacific Rim 1999 - Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 1999 Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO/Pacific Rim 1999
Y2 - 30 August 1999 through 3 September 1999
ER -