Saturation and bistability of defect-mode intersubband polaritons
arXiv:1605.08893 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.91.085308
Abstract
In this article we report about linear and nonlinear optical properties of intersubband cavity polariton samples, where the resonant photonic mode is a defect state in a metallo-dielectric photonic crystal slab. By tuning a single geometric parameter of the resonator, the cavity Q-factor can reach values as large as 85, with a consequent large cooperativity for the light-matter interaction. We show that a device featuring large cooperativity leads to sharp saturation, or even bistability, of the polariton states. This nonlinear dynamics occurs at the crossover between the weak and the strong coupling regimes, where the weak critical coupling concept plays a fundamental role.
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