All-optical flow control of a polariton condensate using nonresonant excitation

Johannes Schmutzler, Przemyslaw Lewandowski, Marc Aßmann, Dominik Niemietz, Stefan Schumacher, Martin Kamp, Christian Schneider, Sven Höfling, and Manfred Bayer
Phys. Rev. B 91, 195308 – Published 11 May 2015

Abstract

The precise adjustment of the polariton condensate flow under incoherent excitation conditions is an indispensable prerequisite for polariton-based logic gate operations. In this report, an all-optical approach for steering the motion of a polariton condensate using only nonresonant excitation is demonstrated. We create arbitrarily shaped functional potentials by means of a spatial light modulator, which allow for tailoring the condensate state and guiding a propagating condensate along reconfigurable pathways. Additional numerical simulations confirm the experimental observations and elucidate the interaction effects between background carriers and polariton condensates.

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  • Received 15 August 2014
  • Revised 16 April 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.195308

©2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Johannes Schmutzler1, Przemyslaw Lewandowski2, Marc Aßmann1, Dominik Niemietz1, Stefan Schumacher2, Martin Kamp3, Christian Schneider3, Sven Höfling3,4, and Manfred Bayer1,5

  • 1Experimentelle Physik 2, Technische Universität Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
  • 2Department of Physics and CeOPP, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, D-33098 Paderborn, Germany
  • 3Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
  • 4SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, United Kingdom
  • 5A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg 194021, Russia

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Vol. 91, Iss. 19 — 15 May 2015

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