Polarization shaping of Poincaré beams by polariton oscillations

David Colas; Lorenzo Dominici; Stefano Donati; Anastasiia A Pervishko; Timothy CH Liew; Ivan A Shelykh; Dario Ballarini; Milena de Giorgi; Alberto Bramati; Giuseppe Gigli; Elena del Valle; Fabrice P Laussy; Alexey V Kavokin; Daniele Sanvitto

doi:10.1038/lsa.2015.123

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Polarization shaping of Poincaré beams by polariton oscillations

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- Polarization shaping of Poincaré beams by polariton oscillations
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 4, Issue 4, (2015)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada and Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049, Spain
  2.NANOTEC, Istituto di Nanotecnologia-CNR, Via Arnesano, 73100 Lecce, Italy
  3.Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, IIT-Lecce, Via Barsanti, 73010 Lecce, Italy
  4.Universitá del Salento, Via Arnesano, 73100 Lecce, Italy
  5.Division of Physics and Applied Physics, Nanyang Technological University, 637371 Singapore, Singapore
  6.Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhagi 3, IS-107, Reykjavik, Iceland
  7.Laboratory of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures, ITMO University, 197101 St. Petersburg, Russia
  8.Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, UPMC-Paris 6, ENS et CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
  9.Russian Quantum Center, Novaya 100, 143025 Skolkovo, Moscow Region, Russia
  10.CNR-SPIN, Tor Vergata, viale del Politechnico 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy
- Author bio：
  
  L Dominici, Email: lorenzo.dominici@gmail.com
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2015.123
  CLC：
- Published：2015-12，
  
  Published Online：29 June 2015，
  
  Received：02 March 2015，
  
  Revised：18 June 2015，
  
  Accepted：19 June 2015
- Accepted：
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Colas, D. et al. Polarization shaping of Poincaré beams by polariton oscillations. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e350 (2015).
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Colas, D. et al. Polarization shaping of Poincaré beams by polariton oscillations. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e350 (2015). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2015.123.

摘要

Abstract

We propose theoretically and demonstrate experimentally the generation of light pulses whose polarization varies temporally to cover selected areas of the Poincaré sphere with both tunable swirling speed and total duration (1 ps and 10 ps

respectively

in our implementation). The effect relies on the Rabi oscillations of two polariton polarized fields excited by two counter-polarized and delayed pulses. The superposition of the oscillating fields result in the precession of the Stokes vector of the emitted light while polariton lifetime imbalance results in its drift from a circle of controllable radius on the Poincaré sphere to a single point at long times. The positioning of the initial circle and final point allows to engineer the type of polarization spanning

including a full sweeping of the Poincaré sphere. The universality and simplicity of the scheme should allow for the deployment of time-varying full-Poincaré polarization fields in a variety of platforms

timescales

and regimes.

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full Poincaré beamspolaritonspolarizationpulse shapingRabi oscillations

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