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Both rich fundamental physics of microcavities and their intriguing potential applications are addressed in this book, oriented to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as to physicists and engineers. We describe the essential steps of development of the physics of microcavities in their chronological order. We show how different types of structures combining optical and electronic confinement have come into play and were used to realize first weak and later strong light-matter coupling regimes. We discuss photonic crystals, microspheres, pillars and other types of artificial optical cavities with embedded semiconductor quantum wells, wires and dots. We present the most striking experimental findings of the recent two decades in the optics of semiconductor quantum structures. We address the fundamental physics and applications of superposition light-matter quasiparticles: exciton-polaritons and describe the most essential phenomena of modern Polaritonics: Physics of the Liquid Light. The book is intended as a working manual for advanced or graduate students and new researchers in the field
Cover; Preface to the 2nd Edition; Preface to the Revised Paperback Edition ; Preface to the First Edition; Acknowledgements; Contents; Glossary; 1 Overview of Microcavities; 1.1 Properties of microcavities; 1.1.1 Q-factor and finesse; 1.1.2 Intracavity field enhancement and field distribution; 1.1.3 Tuneability and mode separation; 1.1.4 Angular mode pattern; 1.1.5 Low-threshold lasing; 1.1.6 Purcell factor and lifetimes ; 1.1.7 Strong vs. weak coupling; 1.2 Microcavity realisations; 1.3 Planar microcavities; 1.3.1 Metal microcavities; 1.3.2 Dielectric Bragg mirrors
1.4 Spherical mirror microcavities;1.5 Pillar microcavities; 1.6 Whispering-gallery modes; 1.6.1 Two-dimensional whispering galleries; 1.6.2 Three-dimensional whispering-galleries; 1.7 Photonic-crystal cavities; 1.7.1 Random lasers; 1.8 Material systems; 1.8.1 GaN microcavities ; 1.8.2 ZnO microcavities; 1.8.3 Organic microcavities; 1.8.4 Transition metal chalcogenides; 1.8.5 Plasmonic nanocavities; 1.9 Microcavity lasers; 1.10 Conclusion; 2 Classical description of light; 2.1 Free space; 2.1.1 Light-field dynamics in free space; 2.2 Propagation in crystals; 2.2.1 Plane waves in bulk crystals
2.2.2 Absorption of light; 2.2.3 Kramers-Kronig relations; 2.3 Coherence; 2.3.1 Statistical properties of light; 2.3.2 Spatial and temporal coherence; 2.3.3 Wiener-Khinchin theorem; 2.3.4 Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect; 2.4 Polarisation-dependent optical effects; 2.4.1 Birefringence; 2.4.2 Magneto-optical effects; 2.5 Propagation of light in multilayer planar structures; 2.6 Photonic eigenmodes of planar systems; 2.6.1 Photonic bands of 1D periodic structures; 2.7 Planar microcavities; 2.8 Tamm plasmons and photonic Tamm states; 2.9 Stripes, pillars and spheres: photonic wires and dots
2.9.1 Cylinders and pillar cavities; 2.9.2 Spheres; 2.10 Further reading; 3 Quantum description of light; 3.1 Pictures of quantum mechanics; 3.1.1 Historical background ; 3.1.2 Schrödinger picture ; 3.1.3 Antisymmetry of the wavefunction; 3.1.4 Symmetry of the wavefunction; 3.1.5 Heisenberg picture; 3.1.6 Dirac (interaction) picture; 3.2 Other formulations; 3.2.1 Density matrix and Liouvillian; 3.2.2 Second quantisation; 3.2.3 Quantisation of the light field; 3.3 Quantum states; 3.3.1 Fock states ; 3.3.2 Coherent states; 3.3.3 Glauber-Sudarshan representation; 3.3.4 Thermal states
3.3.5 Mixture states; 3.3.6 Power spectrum; 3.3.7 g(2) and other Glauber correlators; 3.3.8 Polarisation; 3.4 Outlook on quantum mechanics for microcavities; 3.5 Further reading; 4 Semiclassical description of light-matter coupling; 4.1 Light-matter interaction; 4.1.1 Classical limit ; 4.1.2 Einstein coefficients; 4.2 Optical transitions in semiconductors; 4.3 Excitons in semiconductors; 4.3.1 Frenkel and Wannier-Mott excitons; 4.3.2 Excitons in confined systems; 4.3.3 Quantum wells; 4.3.4 Quantum wires and dots; 4.4 Exciton-photon coupling; 4.4.1 Surface polaritons; 4.4.2 Exciton-photon coupling in quantum wells.
Alexey V. Kavokin, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Guillaume Malpuech, Fabrice P. Laussy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series on semiconductor science and technology