Probing different regimes of strong field light–matter interaction with semiconductor quantum dots and few cavity photons

Autor: F Hargart, K Roy-Choudhury, T John, S L Portalupi, C Schneider, S Höfling, M Kamp, S Hughes, P Michler
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: New Journal of Physics, Vol 18, Iss 12, p 123031 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aa5198
Popis: In this work we present an extensive experimental and theoretical investigation of different regimes of strong field light–matter interaction for cavity-driven quantum dot (QD) cavity systems. The electric field enhancement inside a high-Q micropillar cavity facilitates exceptionally strong interaction with few cavity photons, enabling the simultaneous investigation for a wide range of QD-laser detuning. In case of a resonant drive, the formation of dressed states and a Mollow triplet sideband splitting of up to 45 μ eV is measured for a mean cavity photon number $\langle {n}_{c}\rangle \leqslant 1$ . In the asymptotic limit of the linear AC Stark effect we systematically investigate the power and detuning dependence of more than 400 QDs. Some QD-cavity systems exhibit an unexpected anomalous Stark shift, which can be explained by an extended dressed 4-level QD model. We provide a detailed analysis of the QD-cavity systems properties enabling this novel effect. The experimental results are successfully reproduced using a polaron master equation approach for the QD-cavity system, which includes the driving laser field, exciton-cavity and exciton-phonon interactions.
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