Room-temperature polariton waveguide effect in a ZnO microwire

Yanjing Ling, Wei Xie, Liaoxin Sun, Hongxing Dong, Saifeng Zhang, Xuechu Shen, Zhanghai Chen

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Abstract

We study the propagation of exciton-polaritons in a one-dimensional ZnO microwire at room temperature. Polaritons are generated by nonresonant optical excitation, and those with nonzero momentum along the c-axis propagate as far as tens of micrometers along the microwire. The momentum distribution of the propagating polariton gas depends on the propagation distance; only the polaritons with large c-axis momenta survive after traveling a long distance owing to the propagation loss of polaritons in such a waveguide system.

Original languageEnglish
Article number031102
JournalApplied Physics Express
Volume8
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Mar 2015
Externally publishedYes

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