Abstract
Semiconductor microcavities in the strong coupling regime have been the subject of intensive research efforts these last years. In this system, the eigenstates are exciton-photon entangled states (named cavity polaritons). Polaritons present strong non-linearities due to their excitonic part and obey to bosonic statistics, thus being able to massively occupy a single quantum state (quantum degeneracy). We will discuss here the potentiality of cavity polaritons for the realization of a low threshold source of coherent light, and for the generation of quantum correlated photons.
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