TY  - JOUR
A1  - Laiho, K.
A1  - Pressl, B.
A1  - Schlager, A.
A1  - Suchomel, H.
A1  - Kamp, M.
A1  - Höfling, S.
A1  - Schneider, C.
A1  - Weihs, G.
T1  - Uncovering dispersion properties in semiconductor waveguides to study photon-pair generation
JF  - Nanotechnology
N2  - We investigate the dispersion properties of ridge Bragg-reflection waveguides to deduce their phasematching characteristics. These are crucial for exploiting them as sources of parametric down-conversion (PDC). In order to estimate the phasematching bandwidth we first determine the group refractive indices of the interacting modes via Fabry-Perot experiments in two distant wavelength regions. Second, by measuring the spectra of the emitted PDC photons, we gain access to their group index dispersion. Our results offer a simple approach for determining the PDC process parameters in the spectral domain, and provide important feedback for designing such sources, especially in the broadband case.
KW  - Parametric down-conversion
KW  - Entanglement
KW  - CHIP
KW  - PUMP
KW  - Bragg-reflection waveguide
KW  - Information
KW  - phasematching
KW  - group refractive index
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-187025
VL  - 27
IS  - 43
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Suchomel, H.
A1  - Brodbeck, S.
A1  - Liew, T. C. H.
A1  - Amthor, M.
A1  - Klaas, M.
A1  - Klembt, S.
A1  - Kamp, M.
A1  - Höfling, S.
A1  - Schneider, C.
T1  - Prototype of a bistable polariton field-effect transistor switch
JF  - Scientific Reports
N2  - Microcavity exciton polaritons are promising candidates to build a new generation of highly nonlinear and integrated optoelectronic devices. Such devices range from novel coherent light emitters to reconfigurable potential landscapes for electro-optical polariton-lattice based quantum simulators as well as building blocks of optical logic architectures. Especially for the latter, the strongly interacting nature of the light-matter hybrid particles has been used to facilitate fast and efficient switching of light by light, something which is very hard to achieve with weakly interacting photons. We demonstrate here that polariton transistor switches can be fully integrated in electro-optical schemes by implementing a one-dimensional polariton channel which is operated by an electrical gate rather than by a control laser beam. The operation of the device, which is the polariton equivalent to a field-effect transistor, relies on combining electro-optical potential landscape engineering with local exciton ionization to control the scattering dynamics underneath the gate. We furthermore demonstrate that our device has a region of negative differential resistance and features a completely new way to create bistable behavior.
KW  - materials for optics
KW  - nanoscience and technology
KW  - optics and photonics
KW  - semiconductors
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-158323
VL  - 7
IS  - 5114
ER  -