Cavity quantum electro-optics

Electro-optics Handbook

High-extinction-ratio resonant cavity polarizer for quantum-optics measurements.

The use of a high-finesse Fabry-Perot ring cavity with an odd number of reflections as a high-extinction-ratio resonant polarizer is shown. Experimental results from quantum-noise measurements using resonant cavities as spatial and spectral filters and precision polarizers are presented.

Colloidal and molecular electro-optics.

Quantum Optics

Electro-optical switching between polariton and cavity lasing in an InGaAs quantum well microcavity.

We report on the condensation of microcavity exciton polaritons under optical excitation in a microcavity with four embedded InGaAs quantum wells. The polariton laser is characterized by a distinct non-linearity in the input-output-characteristics, which is accompanied by a drop of the emission linewidth indicating temporal coherence and a characteristic persisting emission blueshift with incre...