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