Overview of Microcavities / 1: |
Properties of microcavities / 1.1: |
Q-factor and finesse / 1.1.1: |
Intracavity field enhancement and field distribution / 1.1.2: |
Tuneability and mode separation / 1.1.3: |
Angular mode pattern / 1.1.4: |
Low-threshold lasing / 1.1.5: |
Purcell factor and lifetimes / 1.1.6: |
Strong vs. weak coupling / 1.1.7: |
Microcavity realizations / 1.2: |
Planar microcavities / 1.3: |
Metal microcavities / 1.3.1: |
Dielectric Bragg mirrors / 1.3.2: |
Spherical mirror microcavities / 1.4: |
Pillar microcavities / 1.5: |
Whispering-gallery modes / 1.6: |
Two-dimensional whispering galleries / 1.6.1: |
Three-dimensional whispering-galleries / 1.6.2: |
Photonic-crystal cavities / 1.7: |
Random lasers / 1.7.1: |
Plasmonic cavities / 1.8: |
Microcavity lasers / 1.9: |
Conclusion / 1.10: |
Classical description of light / 2: |
Free space / 2.1: |
Light-field dynamics in free space / 2.1.1: |
Propagation in crystals / 2.2: |
Plane waves in bulk crystals / 2.2.1: |
Absorption of light / 2.2.2: |
Kramers-Kronig relations / 2.2.3: |
Coherence / 2.3: |
Statistical properties of light / 2.3.1: |
Spatial and temporal coherence / 2.3.2: |
Wiener-Khinchin theorem / 2.3.3: |
Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect / 2.3.4: |
Polarization-dependent optical effects / 2.4: |
Birefringence / 2.4.1: |
Magneto-optical effects / 2.4.2: |
Propagation of light in multilayer planar structures / 2.5: |
Photonic eigenmodes of planar systems / 2.6: |
Photonic bands of 1D periodic structures / 2.6.1: |
Stripes, pillars, and spheres: photonic wires and dots / 2.7: |
Cylinders and pillar cavities / 2.8.1: |
Spheres / 2.8.2: |
Further reading / 2.9: |
Quantum description of light / 3: |
Pictures of quantum mechanics / 3.1: |
Historical background / 3.1.1: |
Schrodinger picture / 3.1.2: |
Antisymmetry of the wavefunction / 3.1.3: |
Symmetry of the wavefunction / 3.1.4: |
Heisenberg picture / 3.1.5: |
Dirac (interaction) picture / 3.1.6: |
Other formulations / 3.2: |
Density matrix / 3.2.1: |
Second quantization / 3.2.2: |
Quantization of the light field / 3.2.3: |
Quantum states / 3.3: |
Fock states / 3.3.1: |
Coherent states / 3.3.2: |
Glauber-Sudarshan representation / 3.3.3: |
Thermal states / 3.3.4: |
Mixture states / 3.3.5: |
Quantum correlations of quantum fields / 3.3.6: |
Statistics of the field / 3.3.7: |
Polarization / 3.3.8: |
Outlook on quantum mechanics for microcavities / 3.4: |
Semiclassical description of light-matter coupling / 3.5: |
Light-matter interaction / 4.1: |
Classical limit / 4.1.1: |
Einstein coefficients / 4.1.2: |
Optical transitions in semiconductors / 4.2: |
Excitons in semiconductors / 4.3: |
Frenkel and Wannier-Mott excitons / 4.3.1: |
Excitons in confined systems / 4.3.2: |
Quantum wells / 4.3.3: |
Quantum wires and dots / 4.3.4: |
Exciton-photon coupling / 4.4: |
Surface polaritons / 4.4.1: |
Exciton-photon coupling in quantum wells / 4.4.2: |
Exciton-photon coupling in quantum wires and dots / 4.4.3: |
Dispersion of polaritons in planar microcavities / 4.4.4: |
Motional narrowing of cavity polaritons / 4.4.5: |
Microcavities with quantum wires or dots / 4.4.6: |
Quantum description of light-matter coupling in semiconductors / 5: |
Rabi dynamics / 5.1: |
Bloch equations / 5.3: |
Full quantum picture / 5.3.1: |
Dressed bosons / 5.3.2: |
Lindblad dissipation / 5.4: |
Jaynes-Cummings model / 5.5: |
Dicke model / 5.6: |
Quantization of the exciton field / 5.7: |
Excitons as bosons / 5.7.2: |
Excitons in quantum dots / 5.7.3: |
Dispersion of polaritons / 5.8: |
The polariton Hamiltonian / 5.8.2: |
Coupling in quantum dots / 5.8.3: |
Weak-coupling microcavities / 6: |
Purcell effect / 6.1: |
The physics of weak coupling / 6.1.1: |
Spontaneous emission / 6.1.2: |
The case of QDs, 2D excitons and 2D electron-hole pairs / 6.1.3: |
Fermi's golden rule / 6.1.4: |
Dynamics of the Purcell effect / 6.1.5: |
Case of QDs and QWs / 6.1.6: |
Experimental realizations / 6.1.7: |
Lasers / 6.2: |
The physics of lasers / 6.2.1: |
Semiconductors in laser physics / 6.2.2: |
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers / 6.2.3: |
Resonant-cavity LEDs / 6.2.4: |
Quantum theory of the laser / 6.2.5: |
Nonlinear optical properties of weak-coupling microcavities / 6.3: |
Bistability / 6.3.1: |
Phase matching / 6.3.2: |
Strong coupling: resonant effects / 6.4: |
Optical properties background / 7.1: |
Quantum well microcavities / 7.1.1: |
Variations on a theme / 7.1.2: |
Motional narrowing / 7.1.3: |
Polariton emission / 7.1.4: |
Near-resonant-pumped optical nonlinearities / 7.2: |
Pulsed stimulated scattering / 7.2.1: |
Quasimode theory of parametric amplification / 7.2.2: |
Microcavity parametric oscillators / 7.2.3: |
Resonant excitation case and parametric amplification / 7.3: |
Semiclassical description / 7.3.1: |
Stationary solution and threshold / 7.3.2: |
Theoretical approach: quantum model / 7.3.3: |
Three-level model / 7.3.4: |
Threshold / 7.3.5: |
Two-beam experiment / 7.4: |
One-beam experiment and spontaneous symmetry breaking / 7.4.1: |
Dressing of the dispersion induced by polariton condensates / 7.4.2: |
Bistable behaviour / 7.4.3: |
Strong coupling: polariton Bose condensation / 8: |
Introduction / 8.1: |
Basic ideas about Bose-Einstein condensation / 8.2: |
Einstein proposal / 8.2.1: |
Experimental realization / 8.2.2: |
Modern definition of Bose-Einstein condensation / 8.2.3: |
Specificities of excitons and polaritons / 8.3: |
Thermodynamic properties of cavity polaritons / 8.3.1: |
Interacting bosons and Bogoliubov model / 8.3.2: |
Polariton superfluidity / 8.3.3: |
Quasicondensation and local effects / 8.3.4: |
High-power microcavity emission / 8.4: |
Thresholdless polariton lasing / 8.5: |
Kinetics of formation of polariton condensates: semiclassical picture / 8.6: |
Qualitative features / 8.6.1: |
The semiclassical Boltzmann equation / 8.6.2: |
Numerical solution of Boltzmann equations, practical aspects / 8.6.3: |
Effective scattering rates / 8.6.4: |
Numerical simulations / 8.6.5: |
Kinetics of formation of polariton condensates: quantum picture in the Born-Markov approximation / 8.7: |
Density matrix dynamics of the ground-state / 8.7.1: |
Discussion / 8.7.2: |
Coherence dynamics / 8.7.3: |
Kinetics of formation of polariton condensates: quantum picture beyond the Born-Markov approximation / 8.8: |
Two-oscillator toy theory / 8.8.1: |
Coherence of polariton-laser emission / 8.8.2: |
Order parameter and phase diffusion coefficient / 8.8.3: |
Semiconductor luminescence equations / 8.9: |
Claims of exciton and polariton Bose-Einstein condensation / 8.10: |
Spin and polarization / 8.11: |
Spin relaxation of electrons, holes and excitons in semiconductors / 9.1: |
Microcavities in the presence of a magnetic field / 9.2: |
Resonant Faraday rotation / 9.3: |
Spin relaxation of exciton-polaritons in microcavities: experiment / 9.4: |
Spin relaxation of exciton-polaritons in microcavities: theory / 9.5: |
Optical spin Hall effect / 9.6: |
Optical induced Faraday rotation / 9.7: |
Interplay between spin and energy relaxation of exciton-polaritons / 9.8: |
Polarization of Bose condensates and polariton superfluidity / 9.9: |
Magnetic-field effect and superfluidity / 9.10: |
Finite-temperature case / 9.11: |
Spin dynamics in parametric oscillators / 9.12: |
Classical nonlinear optics consideration / 9.13: |
Polarized OPO: quantum model / 9.14: |
Conclusions / 9.15: |
Glossary / 9.16: |
Linear algebra / A: |
Scattering rates of polariton relaxation / B: |
Polariton-phonon interaction / B.1: |
Interaction with longitudinal optical phonons / B.1.1: |
Interaction with acoustic phonons / B.1.2: |
Polariton-electron interaction / B.2: |
Polariton-polariton interaction / B.3: |
Polariton decay / B.3.1: |
Polariton-structural-disorder interaction / B.4: |
Derivation of the Landau criterion of superfluidity and Landau formula / C: |
Landau quantization and renormalization of Rabi splitting / D: |
References |
Overview of Microcavities / 1: |
Properties of microcavities / 1.1: |
Q-factor and finesse / 1.1.1: |
Intracavity field enhancement and field distribution / 1.1.2: |
Tuneability and mode separation / 1.1.3: |
Angular mode pattern / 1.1.4: |