Electrically injected cavity polaritons

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Apr 4;100(13):136806. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.136806. Epub 2008 Apr 4.

Abstract

We have realized an electroluminescent device operating in the light-matter strong-coupling regime based on a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum cascade structure embedded in a planar microcavity. At zero bias, reflectivity measurements show a polariton anticrossing between the intersubband transition and the cavity mode. Under electrical injection the spectral features of the emitted light change drastically, as electrons are resonantly injected in a reduced part of the polariton branches. Our experiments demonstrate that electrons can be selectively injected into polariton states up to room temperature.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't