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Time resolved photoluminescence in semiconductor microcavities in the strong coupling regime both for non-resonant and resonant excitation is modeled by considering scattering of exciton polaritons by acoustic phonons. Rise time and decay time of the luminescence signal are studied as a function of temperature. The polariton bottleneck effect is put into evidence in model structures which are free of leaky modes. In realistic strucures these modes are instead expected to play a dominant role in the relaxation of non-resonant photoluminescence.
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Tassone, F., Piermarocchi, C., Savona, V., Quattropani, A., Schwendimann, P. (1996). Time Resolved Photoluminescence From A Semiconductor Microcavity. In: Rarity, J., Weisbuch, C. (eds) Microcavities and Photonic Bandgaps: Physics and Applications. NATO ASI Series, vol 324. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0313-5_8
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