2003/06/30 by A. Baas, Jean‐Philippe Karr, J. Ph. Karr +3 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research #Strong Light-Matter Interactions #Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies
paper · doi:10.1103/physreva.69.023809
openalex publication_date 2004/02/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
We report the observation of polaritonic bistability in semiconductor microcavities in the strong-coupling regime. The origin of bistability is the polariton-polariton interaction, which gives rise to a Kerr-like nonlinearity. The experimental results are in good agreement with a simple model taking transverse effects into account.