Kinetics of stimulated polariton scattering in planar microcavities: evidence for a dynamically self-organized optical parametric oscillator.
Strong temporal hysteresis effects in the population kinetics of pumped and scattered lower polaritons (LPs) have been observed in a planar semiconductor microcavity under a nanosecond-long pulsed resonant excitation (by frequency and angle) near the inflection point of the LPs' dispersion. The hysteresis loops have a complicated shape due to the interplay of two instabilities. The self-instability (bistability) of the nonlinear pumped LP is accompanied by a strong parametric instability which causes an explosive growth of the scattered LPs' population over a wide range of wave vectors. Finally, after a 30-500 ps period, a three-mode scattering pattern forms, thereby demonstrating a dynamically self-organized regime of the optical parametric oscillator. Stability is maintained by the presence of numerous weak "above-condensate" modes; the whole system therefore appears to be highly correlated.
Institute of Solid State Physics RAS, Chernogolovka, 142432 Russia.
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Demenev
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Shchekin
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Larionov
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Gavrilov
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Kulakovskii
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Gippius
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Tikhodeev