Semiconductor microcavities: from cold polariton condensates to polariton lasing at room temperature

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• Dr. Pavlos Lagoudakis (University of Southampton)
• Monday 13 November 2006, 14:15-15:15
• Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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Semiconductor microcavities (MCs) offer a unique system for producing and probing coherent states of matter. The bosonic nature of polaritons, the quasi-particles formed in these structures, and their very light mass can lead to the formation of non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation. The interest in the fundamental properties of these structures is closely followed by technological advances such as inversionless ultralow threshold lasers, and micro-OPOs. Current efforts are devoted to developing novel MC-based photonic devices with both large Rabi splitting and exciton binding energy that can operate at room temperature. In this seminar, I will present our most recent results on polariton lasing at room temperature and on the spatio-temporal dynamics of polariton condensates.

This talk is part of the Semiconductor Physics series.

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