Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
2009-01-24
Physics
Optics
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Scientific paper
We explore a planar GaAs/AlAs photonic microcavity using pump-probe spectroscopy. Free carriers are excited in the GaAs with short pump pulses. The time-resolved reflectivity is spectrally resolved short probe pulses. We show experimentally that the cavity resonance and its width depend on the dynamic refractive index of both the lambda-slab and the lambda/4 GaAs mirrors. We clearly observe a double exponential relaxation of both the the cavity resonance and its width, which is due to the different recombination timescales in the lambda-slab and the mirrors. In particular, the relaxation time due to the GaAs mirrors approaches the photon storage time of the cavity, a regime for which nonlinear effects have been predicted. The strongly non-single exponential behavior of the resonance and the width is in excellent agreement to a transfer-matrix model taking into account two recombination times. The change in width leads to a change in reflectivity modulation depth. The model predicts an optimal cavity Q for any given induced carrier density, if the modulation depth is to be maximized.
Gérard Jean-Michel
Harding Philip J.
Hartsuiker Alex
Mosk Allard P.
Nowicki-Bringuier Yoanna-Reine
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