Published October 17, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Polariton lasing in a hybrid bulk ZnO microcavity

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We demonstrate polariton lasing in a bulk ZnO planar microcavity under non-resonant optical pumping at a small negative detuning (delta~-1/6 the 130 meV vacuum Rabi splitting) and a temperature of 120 K. The strong coupling regime is maintained at lasing threshold since the coherent nonlinear emission from the lower polariton branch (LPB) occurs at zero in-plane wavevector well below the uncoupled cavity mode. The contribution of multiple localized polariton modes above threshold and the non-thermal polariton statistics show that the system is in a far-from-equilibrium regime, likely related to the moderate photon lifetime and in-plane photonic disorder in the cavity.

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https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00633265
URN
urn:oai:HAL:hal-00633265v1

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UNICA