Coherent excitation of a nonlinear microcavity

Jérémy Oden (1) , Stephane Trebaol (1) , Philippe Delaye (1) , Nicolas Dubreuil (1)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Manolia

Coherent excitation of a nonlinear semiconductor microcavity is theoretically reported. It intends to counterbalance the frequency drift of the cavity resonance driven by the nonlinear refractive effects, which causes a limitation in the energy coupling efficiency of an input pulse into the cavity resonance. We show that exciting such a nonlinear microcavity with tailored chirped pulses allows to maintain the benefit of light localization and to further enhance light-matter interactions, opening the way to the realization of highly efficient nonlinear devices.

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Jérémy Oden, Stephane Trebaol, Philippe Delaye, Nicolas Dubreuil. Coherent excitation of a nonlinear microcavity. Journal of the European Optical Society : Rapid publications, 2013, 8, pp.13046. ⟨10.2971/jeos.2013.13046⟩. ⟨hal-00847306⟩