Integrated Polaritonics

An international research activity of state-of-the-art experimental laboratories
and theoretical modelling

Polariton Circuits

In this project we investigate the fundamental properties of spinor polariton condensates towards polariton circuits. We aim to develop the toolbox for all-optical writing of polariton circuits on planar microcavities and utilize the spin of polaritons in configuration that bear applications in all optical switching, optical routing, and volatile optical memory components.

Key researchers:

Prof Sakellaris Mailis, Dr Alexis Askitopoulos, Dr Lucy Pickup, Dr Helgi Sigurdsson, Kirill Kalinin, Ivan Gnusov, Stepan Baryshev

Title: "Spontaneous formation of time-periodic vortex cluster in nonlinear fluids of light"

Authors: K. A. Sitnik, S. Alyatkin, J. D. Töpfer, I. Gnusov, T. Cookson, H. Sigurdsson, and P. G. Lagoudakis


Title: "Engineering photon statistics in a spinor polariton condensate"

Authors: S. Baryshev, A. Zasedatelev, H. Sigurdsson, I. Gnusov, J. D. Töpfer, A. Askitopoulos, and P. G. Lagoudakis


Title: "Reservoir optics with exciton-polariton condensates"

Authors: Y. Wang, H. Sigurdsson, J. D. Töpfer, and PG Lagoudakis


Title: "All-Optical Linear-Polarization Engineering in Single and Coupled Exciton-Polariton Condensates"

Authors: I. Gnusov, H. Sigurdsson, J. D. Töpfer, S. Baryshev, S. Alyatkin, and P. G. Lagoudakis


Title: "Coherent phonon detection gated by transient spin-polarized electrons"

Authors: C. Li, R. T. Harley, P. G. Lagoudakis, O. B. Wright, O. Matsuda


Title: "Geometric frustration in polygons of polariton condensates creating vortices of varying topological charge"

Authors: T. Cookson, K. Kalinin, H. Sigurdsson, J. D. Töpfer, S. Alyatkin, M. Silva, W. Langbein, N. G. Berloff, and P. G. Lagoudakis


Title: "Multiply charged vortex states of polariton condensates"

Authors: S. N. Alperin, N. G. Berloff


Title: "Optical orientation, polarization pinning, and depolarization dynamics in optically confined polariton condensates"

Authors: I. Gnusov, H. Sigurdsson, S. Baryshev, T. Ermatov, A. Askitopoulos, and P. G. Lagoudakis


Authors: S. N. Alperin and N. G. Berloff


Title: "Coherence Revivals of a Spinor Polariton Condensate from Self-induced Larmor Precession"

Authors: A. Askitopoulos, H. Sigurdsson, I. Gnusov, S. Alyatkin, L. Pickup, N. A. Gippius, and P. G. Lagoudakis


Title: "Spontaneous Rotation, Multiply Charged Vortices, and the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in Nonconservative Trapped Bose Condensates"

Authors: S. N. Alperin and N. G. Berloff


Title: "Giant increase of temporal coherence in optically trapped polariton condensate"

Authors: A. Askitopoulos, L. Pickup, S. Alyatkin, A. Zasedatelev, K. G. Lagoudakis, W. Langbein, and P. G. Lagoudakis


Title: "All-optical quantum fluid spin beam splitter"

Authors: A. Askitopoulos, A. V. Nalitov, E. S. Sedov, L. Pickup, E. D. Cherotchenko, Z. Hatzopoulos, P. G. Savvidis, A. V. Kavokin, and P. G. Lagoudakis


Title: "Optical bistability under non-resonant excitation in spinor polariton condensates"

Authors: L. Pickup, K. Kalinin, A. Askitopoulos, Z. Hatzopoulos, P. G. Savvidis, N. G. Berloff, and P. G. Lagoudakis,


Title: "Bosonic cascades of indirect excitons"

Authors: A.V. Nalitov, S. De Liberato, P.G. Lagoudakis, P.G. Savvidis, and A.V. Kavokin


Title: "Giant vortices of controlled multiplicity in polariton lattices"

Authors: K. Kalinin, M. Silva, J. D. Töpfer, W. Langbein, N. G. Berloff, and P. G. Lagoudakis


Title: "Nonresonant optical control of a spinor polariton condensate"

Authors: A. Askitopoulos, K. Kalinin, T.C.H. Liew, P. Cilibrizzi, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, N. G. Berloff, and P.G. Lagoudakis.


Title: "Half-skyrmion spin textures in polariton microcavities"

Authors: P. Cilibrizzi, H. Sigurdsson, T.C.H. Liew, H. Ohadi, A. Askitopoulos, S. Brodbeck, C. Schneider, I. A Shelykh, S. Höfling, J. Ruostekoski, and P.G. Lagoudakis


Title: "Lasing in Bose-Fermi mixtures"

Authors: V.P. Kochereshko, M.V. Durnev, L. Besombes, H. Mariette, V.F. Sapega, A. Askitopoulos, I.G. Savenko, T.C.H. Liew, I.A. Shelykh, A.V. Platonov, S.I. Tsintzos, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, V.K. Kalevich, M.M. Afanasiev, V.A. Lukoshkin, C. Schneider, M. Amthor, C. Metzger, M. Kamp, S. Hoefling, P.G. Lagoudakis, and A. Kavokin


Title: "Polariton Spin Whirls"

Authors: P. Cilibrizzi, H. Sigurdsson, T.C.H. Liew, H. Ohadi, S. Wilkinson, A. Askitopoulos, I.A. Shelykh, and P.G. Lagoudakis.


Title: "Robust platform for engineering pure-quantum-state transitions in polariton condensates"

Authors: A. Askitopoulos, T.C.H. Liew, H. Ohadi, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, and P.G. Lagoudakis


Title: "Spin noise spectroscopy of a single quantum well microcavity”

Author(s): S.V. Poltavtsev, I.I. Ryzhov, M.M. Glazov, G.G. Kozlov, V.S. Zapasskii, A.V. Kavokin, P.G. Lagoudakis, D.S. Smirnov, and E.L. Ivchenko


Title: "Optics of spin-noise-induced gyrotropy of an asymmetric microcavity"

Author(s): S.V. Poltavtsev, I.I. Ryzhov, R.V. Cherbunin, A.V. Mikhailov, N.E. Kopteva, G.G. Kozlov, K.V. Kavokin, V.S. Zapasskii, P.G. Lagoudakis, and A.V. Kavokin


Title: "Polariton condensation in an optically induced two-dimensional potential"

Author(s): A. Askitopoulos, H. Ohadi, A.V. Kavokin, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, and P.G. Lagoudakis


Title: "Nonlinear optical spin Hall effect and long-range spin transport in polariton lasers"

Author(s): E. Kammann, T.C.H. Liew, H. Ohadi, P. Cilibrizzi, P. Tsotsis, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, A.V. Kavokin, P.G. Lagoudakis


Title: "Spontaneous symmetry breaking in a polariton and photon laser"

Author(s): H. Ohadi, E. Kammann, T.C.H. Liew, K.G. Lagoudakis, A.V. Kavokin, P.G. Lagoudakis


Title: "Optical analogue of the spin Hall effect in a photonic cavity"

Author(s): M. Maragkou, C. E. Richards, T. Ostatnický, A.J.D. Grundy, J. Zajac, M. Hugues, W. Langbein, and P.G. Lagoudakis