Polaritonics: from microcavities to sub-wavelength confinement

D Ballarini, S De Liberato - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
Following the initial success of cavity quantum electrodynamics in atomic systems, strong
coupling between light and matter excitations is now achieved in several solid-state set-ups …

Fast amplitude modulation up to 1.5 GHz of mid-IR free-space beams at room-temperature

S Pirotta, NL Tran, A Jollivet, G Biasiol, P Crozat… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Applications relying on mid-infrared radiation (λ~ 3-30 μm) have progressed at a very rapid
pace in recent years, stimulated by scientific and technological breakthroughs like mid …

[HTML][HTML] Surface phonon polaritons for infrared optoelectronics

CR Gubbin, S De Liberato, TG Folland - Journal of applied physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In recent years, there has been significant fundamental research into surface phonon
polaritons, owing to their ability to compress light to extremely small dimensions, low losses …

Intersubband polariton-polariton scattering in a dispersive microcavity

M Knorr, JM Manceau, J Mornhinweg, J Nespolo… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The ultrafast scattering dynamics of intersubband polaritons in dispersive cavities
embedding GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells are studied directly within their band structure …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives and opportunities with multisubband plasmonics

M Montes Bajo, JM Chauveau, A Vasanelli… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In highly doped semiconductor quantum wells (QWs), electrons populate various energy
states from different subbands and, therefore, several optical intersubband transitions …

Excitons bound by photon exchange

E Cortese, NL Tran, JM Manceau, A Bousseksou… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
In contrast to interband excitons in undoped quantum wells, doped quantum wells do not
display sharp resonances due to excitonic bound states. The effective Coulomb interaction …

Effective-density-matrix approach for intersubband plasmons coupled to a cavity field: Electrical extraction and injection of intersubband polaritons

M Lagrée, M Jeannin, G Quinchard, S Pes, A Evirgen… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
The main technological obstacle hampering the dissemination of modern optoelectronic
devices operating with large light-matter coupling strength Ω is an in-depth comprehension …

Unified description of saturation and bistability of intersubband transitions in the weak and strong light-matter coupling regimes

M Jeannin, JM Manceau, R Colombelli - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
We propose a unified description of intersubband absorption saturation for quantum wells
inserted in a resonator, both in the weak and strong light-matter coupling regimes. We …

Strong coupling of ionizing transitions

E Cortese, I Carusotto, R Colombelli, S De Liberato - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In cavity quantum electrodynamics, strong light–matter coupling is normally observed
between a photon mode and a discrete optically active transition. In the present work we …

Ultrastrong Coupling of Si1–xGex Parabolic Quantum Wells to Terahertz Microcavities

F Berkmann, T Venanzi, L Baldassarre… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Control and manipulation of quantum states by light are increasingly important for both
fundamental research and applications. This can be achieved through the strong coupling …