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A practical polariton laser

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The report of an electrically pumped polariton laser that operates at room temperature and relies on an inversionless lasing scheme holds promise for realizing a new breed of very low threshold semiconductor lasers.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the electrically pumped GaN microcavity polariton laser diode.

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  1. Pavlos G. Savvidis is at the Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, IESL-FORTH, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece and Nanophotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK,

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Savvidis, P. A practical polariton laser. Nature Photon 8, 588–589 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.176

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