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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 40: Laser Development: Nonlinear Effects
Q 40.6: Talk
Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 12:15–12:30, K/HS2
Feedback coupling of quantum dot microlasers — •Janik Wolters1, Leon Messner1, Elisabeth Schlottmann1, Sören Kreinberg1, Steffen Holzinger1, Christian Schneider2, Sven Höfling2,3, Martin Kamp2, and Stephan Reitzenstein1 — 1Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany — 2Technische Physik, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany — 3Present address: SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
Semiconductor micropillar cavities with a few tens of embedded quantum dots under time delayed optical feedback are ideal to study the transition from semiclassical to quantum mechanical nonlinear systems. In addition, these structures are expected to have manifold applications, e.g. in cryptography or high bit-rate random number generation.
We established a way to maximize the incoherent optical feedback of nanophotonic systems while leaving options to change phase, polarization and feedback rate. In our experiments, we observe feedback-induced changes, mainly in the second order autocorrelation function of the emitted light and the input-ouptut characteristics.
Our results pave the way to further studies of nonlinear laser dynamics beyond the Lang-Kobayashi model, towards the quantum regime.