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Dan Xu1, Wenhui Liu, Saifeng Zhang
1State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433,China.
Abstract:
High quality ZnO microcylinders (MCDs), which naturally form three-dimensional (3D) optical microcavities, were synthesized by a simple vapor transportation deposition method. The exciton-polariton effects in these 3D microcavities were investigated through the angle-resolved micro-photoluminescence (µ-PL) mappings. By using the coupled oscillator model, the 3D confinement effect of polaritons, i.e., two-dimensional (2D) whispering gallery (WG) type confinement in the cross section of the ZnO MCD, overlapping with the one-dimensional (1D) Fabry-Pérot (F-P) type confinement along the c-axis, was well interpreted.
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