Theory of the angle-resonant polariton amplifier
A microscopic theory is presented for the giant amplification from microcavities in the strong exciton-photon coupling regime, providing excellent agreement with recent angle-resolved pump-probe experiments. The analytical and numerical solutions give insight into the physics of the polariton parametric amplifier. The coherent gain, due to polariton four-wave-mixing, has a threshold dependence on the pump power and is spectrally blueshifted from the lower polariton energy. The gain shift does not depend on the power, but on the unperturbed polariton linewidth.
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Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Dept Phys, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Syst Anal Div, CH-3003 Bern, Switzerland. Ciuti, C, Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Dept Phys, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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