Tracking Dark Excitons with Exciton Polaritons in Semiconductor Microcavities
arXiv:1806.09422 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.047403
Abstract
Dark excitons are of fundamental importance for a wide variety of processes in semiconductors, but are difficult to investigate using optical techniques due to their weak interaction with light fields. We reveal and characterize dark excitons injected by non-resonant pulsed excitation in a semiconductor microcavity structure containing InGaAs/GaAs quantum wells by monitoring their interactions with the bright lower polariton mode. We find a surprisingly long dark exciton lifetime of more than 20 ns which is longer than the time delay between two consecutive pulses. This creates a memory effect that we clearly observe through the variation of the time-resolved transmission signal. We propose a rate equation model that provides a quantitative agreement with the experimental data.
arXiv comment16 pages, 8 figures
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