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Optically Erasing Disorder in Semiconductor Microcavities with Dynamic Nuclear Polarization
The mean squared value of the photonic disorder is found to be reduced by a factor of 100 in a typical GaAs based microcavity when exposed to a circularly polarized continuous wave optical pump without any special spatial patterning. Resonant excitation of the cavity mode excites a spatially nonuniform distribution of spin-polarized electrons, which depends on the photonic disorder profile. Electrons transfer spin to nuclei via the hyperfine contact interaction, inducing a long-living Overhauser magnetic field able to modify the potential of exciton polaritons.
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research article
Web of Science ID
WOS:000289356300015
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Publication date
2011
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Volume
106
Article Number
146404
Peer reviewed
REVIEWED
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EPFL
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December 16, 2011
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