Nonlinear polaritonics: Harnessing collective behaviour of half-light half-matter

    Project: Research

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    Optoelectronic devices, such as light emitting diodes and solar cells, form the basis of modern technology due to their ability to emit, detect, and control light. Polaritonics is the new field of optoelectronics that studies collective quantum behaviour of polaritons - hybrid half-matter half-light quasiparticles in semiconductors. This behaviour emerges when polaritons condense into a single quantum state and act like a macroscopic coherent wave. This project aims to study, theoretically and experimentally, novel properties of polariton condensates that arise from their intrinsic nonlinearity and could be utilised for the use in optical integrated circuits, classical and quantum logic elements, optical switches, and spin-memory elements.
    StatusFinished
    Effective start/end date8/02/127/02/16

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