Strong light–matter interaction in ZnO microcavities

Ying-Yu Lai; Yu-Pin Lan; Tien-Chang Lu

doi:10.1038/lsa.2013.32

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Strong light–matter interaction in ZnO microcavities

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- Strong light–matter interaction in ZnO microcavities
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 2, Issue 1-2, (2013)
- Affiliations：
  
  Department of Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300
- Author bio：
  
  TC Lu, Department of Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300 E-mail: timtclu@mail.nctu.edu.tw
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2013.32
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- Published：2013-06，
  
  Published Online：21 June 2013，
  
  Received：18 September 2012，
  
  Revised：18 January 2013，
  
  Accepted：18 January 2013
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Lai, Y. Y., Lan, Y. P. & Lu, T. C. Strong light–matter interaction in ZnO microcavities. Light: Science & Applications, 2, e76 (2013).
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Lai, Y. Y., Lan, Y. P. & Lu, T. C. Strong light–matter interaction in ZnO microcavities. Light: Science & Applications, 2, e76 (2013). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2013.32.

摘要

Abstract

The strong light–matter interaction in ZnO-embedded microcavities has received great attention in recent years

due to its ability to generate the robust bosonic quasiparticles

exciton-polaritons

at or above room temperature. This review introduces the strong coupling effect in ZnO-based microcavities and describes the recent progress in this field. In addition

the report contains a systematic analysis of the room-temperature strong-coupling effects from relaxation to polariton lasing. The stable room temperature operation of polaritonic effects in a ZnO microcavity promises a wide range of practical applications in the future

such as ultra-low power consumption coherent light emitters in the ultraviolet region

polaritonic transport

and other fundamental of quantum optics in solid-state systems.

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microcavitypolaritonstrong couplingZnO

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