Publications de Ounsi El Daïf

Probability density tomography of microcavity polaritons confined in cylindrical traps of various sizes

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, François Morier-Genoud, Taofiq Paraïso, Gaël Nardin, Ounsi El Daïf, Roland Cerna, Barbara Pietka

We present the optical tomography of the probability density of microcavity polaritons, confined in three dimensions by cylindrical traps of various sizes. Collecting the photoluminescence emitted by the quasimodes under continuous nonresonant laser excita ...

Elsevier2010

Probability density optical tomography of confined quasiparticles in a semiconductor microcavity

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, François Morier-Genoud, Taofiq Paraïso, Gaël Nardin, Ounsi El Daïf, Roland Cerna, Barbara Pietka

We present the optical tomography of the probability density of quasiparticles, the microcavity polaritons, confined in three dimensions by cylindrical traps. Collecting the photoluminescence emitted by the quasimodes under continuous nonresonant laser exc ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2009

Coherent optical control of the wave function of zero dimensional exciton polaritons

Vincenzo Savona, Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, François Morier-Genoud, Taofiq Paraïso, Marcia Portella Oberli, Gaël Nardin, Ounsi El Daïf, Davide Sarchi, Roland Cerna, Barbara Pietka

Control of the wave function of confined microcavity polaritons is demonstrated experimentally and theoretically by means of tailored resonant optical excitation. Three dimensional confinement is achieved by etching mesas on top of the microcavity spacer l ...

2009

Enhancement of microcavity polariton relaxation under confinement

Vincenzo Savona, Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, François Morier-Genoud, Taofiq Paraïso, Gaël Nardin, Ounsi El Daïf, Davide Sarchi, Roland Cerna, Barbara Pietka

We experimentally investigate the relaxation of spatially confined microcavity polaritons. We measure the time- and energy-resolved photoluminescence under resonant excitation and in the low-density regime. In this way, we have access to the time evolution ...

2009

Nonlinear relaxation of zero-dimension-trapped microcavity polaritons

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, François Morier-Genoud, Taofiq Paraïso, Gaël Nardin, Ounsi El Daïf, Jean-Philippe Brantut

We study the emission properties of confined polariton states in shallow zero-dimensional traps under nonresonant excitation. We evidence several relaxation regimes. For slightly negative photon-exciton detuning, we observe a nonlinear increase of the emis ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2008

Resonant nonlinear studies of trapped 0D-microcavity polaritons

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, François Morier-Genoud, Taofiq Paraïso, Gaël Nardin, Ounsi El Daïf

We performed studies on microcavity polaritons trapped along the three dimensions of space, under resonant excitation on a confined lower polariton state. We observed various nonlinear behaviors as a function of the pump power, without any apparent loss of ...

WILEY-VCH Verlag2008

0D microcavity polaritons : trapping light-matter quasiparticles

Ounsi El Daïf

Polaritons are half-matter half-light quasiparticles, arising, in a two-dimensional semiconductor microcavity, from the strong-coupling between an exciton (an elementary electronic excitation of a crystal) and a photon. This thesis presents the fabrication ...

EPFL2007

Polariton quantum boxes in semiconductor microcavities

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, François Morier-Genoud, Reda Idrissi Kaitouni, Ounsi El Daïf, Jean-Philippe Brantut

American Institute of Physics2006

Engineering the spatial confinement of exciton polaritons in semiconductors

Vincenzo Savona, Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Jean-Daniel Ganière, François Morier-Genoud, Reda Idrissi Kaitouni, Taofiq Paraïso, Ounsi El Daïf, Pierre Lugan

We demonstrate three-dimensional spatial confinement of exciton-polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity. Polaritons are confined within a micron-sized region of slightly larger cavity thickness, called mesa, through lateral trapping of their photon compo ...

2006

Zero dimensional exciton-polaritons

Vincenzo Savona, Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, François Morier-Genoud, Reda Idrissi Kaitouni, Gaël Nardin, Ounsi El Daïf, Jean-Philippe Brantut

We present a novel semiconductor structure in which 0D polaritons coexist with 2D microcavity polaritons. Spatial trapping of the 2D microcavity polaritons results from the confinement of their photonic part in a potential well, consisting of an adjustable ...

2006

Near infrared twin photon source

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, François Morier-Genoud, Ounsi El Daïf

Optical parametric oscillator including a semiconductor microcavity being configured to spatially localize polaritons of at least three quantized polariton energy levels to effect an optical parametric oscillation. ...

2006