Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2010-06-30
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
4 pages
Scientific paper
We study a "strongly-coupled" (SC) polariton system formed between the atom-like intersubband transitions in a semiconductor nanostructure and the THz optical modes that are localised at the edges of a gold aperture. The polaritons can be excited optically, by incoherent excitation with bandgap radiation, and we find that they also coherently scatter the same input laser, to give strikingly sharp "sideband" (SB) spectral peaks in the backscattered spectrum. The SB intensity is a sensitive track of the polariton density and they can be detected down to a quantum noise floor that is more than 2500 times lower than the excitation thresholds of comparable quantum cascade laser diodes. Compared with other coherent scattering mechanisms, higher order SB scattering events are readily observable, and we speculate that the effect may find utility as a passive all-optical wavelength shifting mechanism in telecommunications systems.
Fernandez-Dominguez Antonio I.
Gambari Johannes
Hu Qing
Kumar Sushil
Maier Stefan A.
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