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Title: Electrically Controlled Photonic Circuits of Field-Induced Dipolaritons with Huge Nonlinearities
Electrically controlled photonic circuits hold promise for information technologies with greatly improved energy efficiency and quantum information processing capabilities. However, weak nonlinearity and electrical response of typical photonic materials have been two critical challenges. Therefore, hybrid electronic-photonic systems, such as semiconductor exciton polaritons, have been intensely investigated for their potential to allow higher nonlinearity and electrical control, with limited success so far. Here we demonstrate an electrically gated waveguide architecture for field induced dipolar polaritons that allows enhanced and electrically controllable polariton nonlinearities, enabling an electrically tuned reflecting switch (mirror) and transistor of the dipolar polaritons. The polariton transistor displays blockade and antiblockade by compressing a dilute dipolar-polariton pulse exhibiting very strong dipolar interactions. The large nonlinearities are explained using a simple density-dependent dipolar polarization field that very effectively screens the external electric field. We project that a quantum blockade at the single polariton level is feasible in such a device. Published by the American Physical Society2024  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2004287
PAR ID:
10638676
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
APS
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Physical Review X
Volume:
14
Issue:
3
ISSN:
2160-3308
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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