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Dressed photon-excitons in a Fabry–Pérot cavity filled with a nonlinear semiconductor

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The dressed photon-exciton in a two-dimensional optical microcavity is studied within the framework of quantum field theory. Our experimental scheme utilizes a planar Fabry–Pérot cavity filled with a nonlinear semiconductor. The Fabry–Pérot cavity provides an effective mass for a photon, making the system formally equivalent to a two-dimensional gas of free, massive bosons. The incident photons interact with the transverse excitons in the semiconductor and hence are converted into new quasiparticles, which we refer to as dressed photon–excitons. A dressed photon–exciton is a photon dressed with a cloud of virtual transverse excitons. One of the most important properties of dressed photon–exciton is an increased inert mass. Owing to the effect of dressed photon–excitons, we find that the photon–photon interaction is enhanced greatly. The dressed photon–exciton is a quantum effect of cavity nonlinear optics and an optical analogue of the polaron.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 10174024 and No. 10474025.

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Cheng, Z. Dressed photon-excitons in a Fabry–Pérot cavity filled with a nonlinear semiconductor. Appl. Phys. B 128, 130 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-022-07851-6

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