Exciton-polaritons in lattices: A non-linear photonic simulator

Publication date: Available online 25 August 2016 Source:Comptes Rendus Physique Author(s): Alberto Amo, Jacqueline Bloch Microcavity polaritons are mixed light–matter quasiparticles with extraordinary nonlinear properties, which can be easily accessed in photoluminescence experiments. Thanks to the possibility of designing the potential landscape of polaritons, this system provides a versatile photonic platform to emulate 1D and 2D Hamiltonians. Polaritons allow transposing to the photonic world some of the properties of electrons in solid-state systems, and to engineer Hamiltonians for photons with novel transport properties. Here we review some experimental implementations of polariton Hamiltonians using lattice geometries.

Source: Comptes Rendus Physique - August 25, 2016 Category: Physics Source Type: research