Coherent excitation of a nonlinear microcavity

J. Oden; S. Trebaol; P. Delaye; N. Dubreuil

doi:10.2971/jeos.2013.13046

Journal of the European Optical Society - Rapid publications, Vol 8 (2013)

Coherent excitation of a nonlinear microcavity

J. Oden, S. Trebaol, P. Delaye, N. Dubreuil

Abstract

Coherent excitation of a nonlinear semiconductor microcavity is theoretically reported. It intends to counterbalance the frequency drift ofthe cavity resonance driven by the nonlinear refractive effects, which causes a limitation in the energy coupling efficiency of an input pulseinto the cavity resonance. We show that exciting such a nonlinear microcavity with tailored chirped pulses allows to maintain the benefit oflight localization and to further enhance light-matter interactions, opening the way to the realization of highly efficient nonlinear devices.

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