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Polariton lasing

The experimental demonstration of polariton lasing from an organic optical microcavity is an important step towards the development of practical devices that exploit coupled states of light and matter and operate at room temperature.

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Figure 1: Polariton lasing vs photon lasing in a GaAs-based microcavity.
Figure 2: Photoluminescence intensity of the wavevector k = 0, b-polarized (LPb) lower polaritons as a function of pump fluence (green circles).

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La Rocca, G. Polariton lasing. Nature Photon 4, 343–345 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.131

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