cold excitonic matter in cu 2 o under two-photon excitation
DESCRIPTION
e -. polaritons. E. h +. 2k o. UPB. a B = 0.7 nm. LPB. k o. Impurity-bound excitons. k o. k. Laser pulse. Cold excitonic matter in Cu 2 O under two-photon excitation J. B. Ketterson 1 and R. P. H. Chang 2 1 Department of Physics and Astronomy - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Cold excitonic matter in Cu2O under two-photon excitationJ. B. Ketterson1 and R. P. H. Chang2
1Department of Physics and Astronomy2Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Northwestern University, DMR-0353831
Photo-excitation & exciton PL after filtering
Exciton and polariton emissions in cuprous oxide
k
E
LPBUPB
Laser pulse
ko
ko
2ko
Exciton: Bound state
of electron-hole
Polariton: Quantum Superposition of an exciton and a photon
e-
h+
aB = 0.7 nm
Photon energy (meV)2000 2020 2040
PL
in
ten
sity (
arb
. u
nits)
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140polaritons
Impurity-boundexcitons
Propagating polaritons under two-photon
excitation viaPhase-space compression*
*R. Shimano et al., PRL 89, 233601 (2002)
( + ) + ( ) = 2