Semiconductor Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

✍ Scribed by Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Francesco Tassone, Hui Cao (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 164
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 169
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Recent advances in semiconductor technology have made it possible to fabricate microcavity structures in which both photon fields and electron--hole pairs (or excitons) are confined in a small volume comparable to their wavelength. The radiative properties of the electron--hole pairs and excitons are modified owing to the drastic change in the structure of the electromagnetic-field modes. This book is the first to give a comprehensive account of the theory of semiconductor cavity quantum electrodynamics for such systems in the weak-coupling and strong-coupling regimes. The important concepts are presented, together with relevant, recent experimental results.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-23
Microcavity Exciton Polaritons....Pages 25-48
Biexcitonic Effects in Microcavities....Pages 49-58
Resonant Tunneling into Exciton and Polariton States....Pages 59-86
Competition Between Photon Lasing and Exciton Lasing....Pages 87-98
Polariton Dynamics in Photoluminescence....Pages 99-126
Stimulated Emission of Exciton Polaritons....Pages 127-144

✦ Subjects

Laser Technology and Physics, Photonics; Physics and Applied Physics in Engineering