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Phys. Rev. A 69, 023809 (2004) [8 pages]

Optical bistability in semiconductor microcavities

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A. Baas1, J. Ph. Karr1, H. Eleuch2, and E. Giacobino1
1Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Université Paris 6, Ecole Normale Supérieure et CNRS, UPMC Case 74, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
2Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie, Centre Urbain Nord Bp N 676, 1080 Tunis Cedex, Tunisia

Received 1 July 2003; published 17 February 2004

We report the observation of polaritonic bistability in semiconductor microcavities in the strong-coupling regime. The origin of bistability is the polariton-polariton interaction, which gives rise to a Kerr-like nonlinearity. The experimental results are in good agreement with a simple model taking transverse effects into account.


©2004 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.69.023809
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.023809
PACS: 42.65.Pc, 71.36.+c, 78.67.-n, 42.50.-p

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