Magnetic-field enhancement of the exciton-polariton splitting in a semiconductor quantum-well microcavity: The strong coupling threshold

J. D. Berger, O. Lyngnes, H. M. Gibbs, G. Khitrova, T. R. Nelson, E. K. Lindmark, A. V. Kavokin, M. A. Kaliteevski, and V. V. Zapasskii
Phys. Rev. B 54, 1975 – Published 15 July 1996
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Abstract

We investigate the influence of strong magnetic confinement on an exciton coupled to the resonant mode of a semiconductor microcavity. Cavity mode coupling to a variety of discrete exciton resonances is described in direct relation to the quantum-well magnetoabsorption spectra. We show that the magnetic-field-enhanced vacuum Rabi splitting and time-resolved oscillation frequency obey the predicted square-root dependence on the exciton oscillator strength computed directly from the integrated absorption spectra. Anticrossing curves measured in zero field and in 11.25 T evidence an interesting three-oscillator coupling observable only at high fields due to enhanced higher-order light-hole-exciton transitions. The data are in excellent agreement with a theoretical model which deduces magnetic-field-dependent oscillator strengths and corresponding reflectance spectra from a variational calculation combined with a transfer matrix method. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

  • Received 2 January 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.54.1975

©1996 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

J. D. Berger, O. Lyngnes, H. M. Gibbs, G. Khitrova, T. R. Nelson, and E. K. Lindmark

  • Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721

A. V. Kavokin and M. A. Kaliteevski

  • A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 26 Polytekhnicheskaya, St. Petersburg 194021, Russia

V. V. Zapasskii

  • St. Petersburg State University, Vavilov State Optical Institute, Petrodvorets, St. Petersburg, Russia

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Vol. 54, Iss. 3 — 15 July 1996

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