NPHO2016_Room-temperature polariton lasing in an organic single-crystal microcavity.pdf

LETTERS PUBLISHED ONLINE: 18 APRIL 2010 | DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON.2010.86 Room-temperature polariton lasing in an organic single-crystal microcavity ´ 1,2 2 S. Kena-Cohen and S. R. Forrest * The optical properties of organic semiconductors are almost between the two inequivalent molecules in the unit cell exclusively described using the Frenkel exciton picture1. In (Fig. 1b)11. Both cavity photon polarizations can couple simul- this description, the strong Coulombic interaction between an taneously to these resonances and their vibronic replicas, resulting 10,12–15 excited electron and the charged vacancy it leaves behind in an anisotropic dispersion with multiple polariton branches . (a hole) is automatically taken into account. If, in an optical The dispersion corresponding to the b-polarized resonance is shown microcavity, the exciton–photon interaction is strong compared in Fig. 1c. to the excitonic and photonic decay rates, a second quasipar- To identify a threshold in the polariton ground-state occupation, ticle, the microcavity polariton, must be introduced to properly the emission spectrum at 08 was measured as a function of the pump account for this coupling2. Coherent, laser-like emission from fluence, varied using a series of metallic neutral density filters polaritons has been predicted to occur wh