Coherent and incoherent dynamics of excitons in semiconductor microcavities.

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作者
Norris, TB [1 ]
Rhee, JK [1 ]
Citrin, DS [1 ]
Nishioka, M [1 ]
Arakawa, Y [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV TOKYO,INST IND SCI,MINATO KU,TOKYO 153,JAPAN
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NUOVO CIMENTO DELLA SOCIETA ITALIANA DI FISICA D-CONDENSED MATTER ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND CHEMICAL PHYSICS FLUIDS PLASMAS BIOPHYSICS | 1995年 / 17卷 / 11-12期
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10.1007/BF02457201
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We have investigated the dynamics of impulsively excited planar microcavities in the strongly coupled regime. With resonant, coherent excitation, the emitted light shows vacuum-Rabi oscillations and a lifetime corresponding to twice the cavity lifetime. As the light intensity is increased, the exciton bleaching leads to reduced normal-mode splitting. The role of interface disorder on the dynamic splitting is discussed. Coherence transfer in exciton-exciton scattering is observed. Off-resonant excitation leads to long lifetimes limited by scattering into the radiatively coupled states of the exciton-cavity system.
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页码:1295 / 1303
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