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Influence of Structural Disorder and Light Coupling on the Excitonic Response of Semiconductor Microcavities
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Influence of Structural Disorder and Light Coupling on the Excitonic Response of Semiconductor Microcavities

C Ell, J Prineas, T. R Nelson, S Park, H. M Gibbs, G Khitrova, S. W Koch and R Houdré
Physical review letters, Vol.80(21), pp.4795-4798
05/1998
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4795
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http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/111011View
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Abstract

The interplay between structural disorder, Coulomb interaction, and light-coupling effects is investigated for high-quality quantum wells in a semiconductor microcavity. The independently measured experimental susceptibility of a single quantum well in linear dispersion theory yields excellent agreement with a series of measured reflectivity spectra for a variety of microcavity and distributed Bragg structures, showing that the disorder-averaged response of the exciton in its quantum well determines the optical response.

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