Presentation

The Optic of Semiconductor nanoStructures Group (GOSS) is concerned with a wide spectrum of research topics going from fundamental aspects of light-matter interaction to opto-electronic devices, and from electronic structure engineering to material characterization.

Among on-going studies, for instance, are topics such as the optical manipulation of the electron spin in a quantum dot, the fabrication and study of photonic crystal-based devices, or the collective properties of mixte quasiparticules formed by the coupling of a photon and an electronic excitation confined in an optical microcavity.

	Action BQM : Quantum dots in microcavities
	Action BQSpin : Optical manipulation of electron spin in quantum dots
	Action CFMC : Microcavities in the strong coupling regime
	Action CPOI : Photonic crystal for integrated optics
	Action TheMo : Theory/Modeling
	Action SpeRe : Spectroscopy and recombination dynamics

Members

Group leader

Voisin Paul

(+33) 1 69 63 61 93

Full-time staff

Amo Alberto	(+33) 1 69 63 61 91
Bloch Jacqueline	(+33) 1 69 63 61 90
Gauthron Karine	(+33) 1 69 63 61 94
Krebs Olivier	(+33) 1 69 63 61 92
Lanco Loic	(+33) 1 69 63 60 45
Marzin Jean-Yves	(+33) 1 69 63 60 53
Senellart Pascale	(+33) 1 69 63 61 96
Talneau Anne	(+33) 1 69 63 61 46

Trainees, PhDs, post-docs, guests

Marsault Felix	(+33) 1 69 63 61 97
Nestoklon M. O.	(+33) 1 69 63 61 72
Pommarede Xavier	(+33) 1 69 63 60 64
Tanese Dimitrii	(+33) 1 69 63 60 91
Gazzano Olivier	(+33) 1 69 63 61 89
Nguyen Hai Son	(+33) 1 69 63 60 42
Jacqmin Thibaut	(+33) 1 69 63 60 62
Sala Vera Giulia	(+33) 1 69 63 60 91
Arnold Christophe	(+33) 1 69 63 60 46
Sturm Chris	(+33) 1 69 63 60 44
Ben Chamekh Ramzi	(+33) 1 69 63 61 72
Portalupi Simone Luca	(+33) 1 69 63 60 47
Lanzillotti-Kimura Daniel	(+33) 1 69 63 61 89
Itawi Ahmad	(+33) 1 69 63 61 37
Pantzas Konstantinos	(+33) 1 69 63 60 54
Giesz Valérian	(+33) 1 69 63 61 88
Demory Justin	(+33) 1 69 63 60 19
Nowak Anna Kamila	(+33) 1 69 63 60 47

Patents

• Sources et capteurs de lumiere comprenant au moins une microcavite a mode TAMM plasmonique localise, P. Senellart, A. Lemaitre, S. Michaelis de Vasconcellos, O. Gazzano, J. Bellessa, O. Daniel, FR 1003/881 , (2010-09-30)
  
• composant emetteur de paires de photons intriques en polarisation et methode de fabrication de ce composant, P. Senellart, A. Dousse, FR 1000195, (2010-01-19)
  
• Structure a? cristal photonique pour la conversion de mode , A. Talneau, P. Lalanne, FR 0115057, (2001-01-01)
  

Recent publications

• Polariton condensation in solitonic gap states in a one-dimensional periodic potential , D. Tanese, H. Flayac, D. Solnyshkov, A. Amo, A. Lemaitre, E. Galopin, R. Braive, P. Senellart, I. Sagnes, G. Malpuech, J. Bloch, Nat. Commun. 4, 1749 (2013)
• Macroscopic quantum self-trapping and Josephson oscillations of exciton polaritons , M. Abbarchi, A. Amo, V.G. Sala, D. Solnyshkov, H. Flayac, L. Ferrier, I. Sagnes, E. Galopin, A. Lemaitre, G. Malpuech, J. Bloch, Nat. Phys. , doi:10.1038/nphys2609 (2013)
• Realization of a double barrier resonant tunneling diode for cavity polaritons , H.-S. Nguyen, D. Vishnevsky, M. Sturm, D. Tanese, D. Solnyshkov, E. Galopin, A. Lemaitre, I. Sagnes, A. Amo, G. Malpuech, J. Bloch, Phys. Rev. Lett. , to be published (2013)
• Bright solid-state sources of indistinguishable single photons , O. Gazzano, S. Michaelis de Vasconcellos, C. Arnold, A.K. Nowak, E. Galopin, I. Sagnes, L. Lanco, A. Lemaitre, P. Senellart, Nat. Commun. 4, 1425 (2013)
• Nuclear spin physics in quantum dots: An optical investigation , B. Urbaszek, X. Marie, T. Amand, O. Krebs, P. Voisin, P. Maletinsky, A. Högele, A. Imamoglu, Rev. Mod. Phys. 85, 79 (2013)
• Propagation and Amplification Dynamics of 1D Polariton Condensates , E. Wertz, A. Amo, D. Solnyshkov, L. Ferrier, T.C.H. Liew, D. Sanvitto, P. Senellart, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaitre, A. V. Kavokin, G. Malpuech, J. Bloch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 216404 (2012)
• High-Q planar organic-inorganic Perovskite-based microcavity , Z. Han, H.-S. Nguyen, F. Boitier, Y. Wei, J.-S. Lauret, J. Bloch, S. Bouchoule, E. Deleporte, Opt. Lett. 37, 5061 (2012)
• Far-Field Optical Control of a Movable Subdiffraction Light Grid [PDF] , J. Girard, G. Scherrer, A. Cattoni, A. Le Moal, A. Talneau, B. Cluzel, F. de Fornel, A. Sentenac, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 187404 (2012)
• Optical Nonlinearity for Few-Photon Pulses on a Quantum Dot-Pillar Cavity Device , V. Loo, C. Arnold, O. Gazzano, A. Lemaitre, I. Sagnes, O. Krebs, P. Voisin, P. Senellart, L. Lanco, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166806 (2012)
• Extremely thin planarized grating for sub-diffraction (<100nm) far-field imaging of living cell membranes [PDF] , A. Cattoni, A. Talneau, A.-M. Haghiri-Gosnet, J. Girard, A. Sentenac, Microelectron. Eng. 97, 154 (2012)
• Half-solitons in a polariton quantum fluid behave like magnetic monopoles , R. Hivet, G. Malpuech, A. Bramati, J. Bloch, E. Giacobino, D Andreoli, T. Boulier, D. Tanese, H. Flayac, A. Amo, Nat. Phys. 8, 724 (2012)
• Bunching visibility of optical parametric emission in a semiconductor microcavity , V. Ardizzone, M. Abbarchi, A. Lemaitre, I. Sagnes, P. Senellart, J. Bloch, C. Delalande, J. Tignon, P. Roussignol, Phys. Rev. B 86, 04131 (R) (2012)
• Giant photoinduced Faraday rotation due to the spin-polarized electron gas in an n-GaAs microcavity , R. Giri, S. Cronenberger, M. Vladimirova, D. Scalbert, K. V. Kavokin, M.M. Glazov, M. Nawrocki, A. Lemaitre, J. Bloch, Phys. Rev. B 85, 195313 (2012)
• Polariton condensation in photonic molecules , M. Galbiati, L. Ferrier, D. Solnyshkov, D. Tanese, E. Wertz, A. Amo, M. Abbarchi, P. Senellart, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaitre, E. Galopin, G. Malpuech, J. Bloch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 126403 (2012)
• Optical bistability in a quantum dots/micropillar device with a quality factor exceeding 200 000 , C. Arnold, V. Loo, A. Lemaitre, I. Sagnes, O. Krebs, P. Voisin, P. Senellart, L. Lanco, Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 111111 (2012)
• High density InAlAs/GaAlAs quantum dots for non-linear optics in microcavities , R. Kuszelewicz, J.-M. Benoit, S. Barbay, A. Lemaitre, G. Patriarche, K. Gauthron, A. Tierno, T. Ackemann, J. Appl. Phys. 111, 43107 (2012)
• Global model of Cl2/Ar high-density plasma discharge and 2D Monte Carlo etching model of InP , R. Chanson, A. Rhallabi, M.-C. Peignon-Fernandez, C. Cardinaud, S. Bouchoule, L. Gatilova, A. Talneau, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 40 (issue 4), 959 (2012)
• Anisotropic magneto-resistance in a GaMnAs-based single impurity tunnel diode: A tight binding approach , O. Krebs, H. Jaffres, V. Emiliani, J.-M. George, J.-M. Jancu, P. Voisin, Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, (2012)
• Backscattering suppression in supersonic 1D polariton condensates , D. Tanese, D. Solnyshkov, A. Amo, L. Ferrier, E. Bernet-Rollande, E. Wertz, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaitre, P. Senellart, G. Malpuech, J. Bloch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 36405 (2012)
• Discretized disorder in planar semiconductor microcavities: Mosaicity effect on resonant Rayleigh scattering and optical parametric oscillation , M. Abbarchi, C. Diederichs, L. Largeau, V. Ardizzone, O. Mauguin, T. Lecomte, A. Lemaitre, J. Bloch, P. Roussignol, J. Tignon, Phys. Rev. B 85, 45316 (2012)
• Electrical modulation of the complex refractive index in mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers , J. Teissier, S. Laurent, C. Manquest, C. Sirtori, A. Bousseksou, J.-R. Coudevylle, R. Colombelli, G. Beaudoin, I. Sagnes, Optics Express 20, 1172 (2012)
• Optical pumping and reversal of hole spin in InAs/GaAs quantum dots , F. Fras, M. Chamarro, B. Eble, F. Bernardot, C. Testelin, A. Miard, A. Lemaitre, Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 12104 (2012)
• Tomographic diffractive microscopy with a wavefront sensor , Y. Ruan, P. Bon, E Mudry, G. Maire, P.C. Chaumet, H. Giovannini, K. Belkebir, A. Talneau, B Wattelier, S Monneret, A. Sentenac, Opt. Lett. 37, 1631 (2012)
• Evidence for Confined Tamm Plasmon Modes under Metallic Microdisks and Application to the Control of Spontaneous Optical Emission , O. Gazzano, S. Michaelis de Vasconcellos, K. Gauthron, C. Symonds, J. Bloch, P. Voisin, J. Bellessa, A. Lemaitre, P. Senellart, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 247402 (2011)
• Fast control of nuclear spin polarization in an optically pumped single quantum dot , M. N. Makhonin, K. V. Kavokin, P. Senellart, A. Lemaitre, A.J. Ramsay, M. Skolnick, A. I. Tartakovskii, Nature Materials 10, 844 (2011)
• Optical Pumping and a Nondestructive Readout of a Single Magnetic Impurity Spin in an InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot , E. Baudin, E. Benjamin, A. Lemaitre, O. Krebs, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 197402 (2011)
• Optical orientation of bright excitons in InAs/GaAs quantum dots: Influence of a Faraday magnetic field and the dark exciton states , S. Sancho, M. Chaouache, M. A. Maaref, F. Bernardot, B. Eble, A. Lemaitre, C. Testelin, Phys. Rev. B 84, 155458 (2011)
• Critical optical coupling between a GaAs disk and a nanowaveguide suspended on the chip , C. Baker, C. Belacel, A. Andronico, P. Senellart, A. Lemaitre, E. Galopin, S. Ducci, G. Leo, I. Favero, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 151117 (2011)
• Motion of Spin Polariton Bullets in Semiconductor Microcavities , P. Gogol, T. Maroutian, A. Amo, M.D. Martin, D. Sanvitto, C. Anton, E. Giacobino, F. Ott, A. Bramati, L. Vina, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, (2011)
• Ultra-low threshold polariton lasing in photonic crystal cavities , S. Azzini, D. Gerace, M. Galli, I. Sagnes, R. Braive, A. Lemaitre, J. Bloch, D. Bajoni, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 111106 (2011)
• Radiation patterns from coupled photonic crystal nanocavities , M. Brunstein, T. J. Karle, I. Sagnes, F. Raineri, J. Bloch, Y. Halioua, G. Beaudoin, L. Le Gratiet, J. A. Levenson, A. Giacomotti, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 111101 (2011)
• Hole-spin initialization and relaxation times in InAs/GaAs quantum dots , F. Fras, M. Chamarro, B. Eble, P. Desfonds, F. Bernardot, C. Testelin, A. Miard, A. Lemaitre, Phys. Rev. B 84, 125431 (2011)
• Spatial, spectral, and polarization properties of coupled micropillar cavities , S. Michaelis de Vasconcellos, A. Calvar, A. Dousse, J. Suffczynski, N. Dupuis, A. Lemaitre, I. Sagnes, J. Bloch, P. Voisin, P. Senellart, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 101103 (2011)
• Fast coherent control of nuclear spins in an optically pumped single quantum dot , M. N. Makhonin, K. V. Kavokin, P. Senellart, A. Lemaitre, A.J. Ramsay, M. Skolnick, A. I. Tartakovskii, Nature Materials 10, 844 (2011)
• Onset and Dynamics of Vortex-Antivortex Pairs in Polariton Optical Parametric Oscillator Superfluids , G. Tosi, F. M. Marchetti, D. Sanvitto, C. Anton, M. H. Szymanska, A. Berceanu, C. Tejedor, L. Marrucci, A. Lemaitre, J. Bloch, L. Vina, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 36401 (2011)
• Polariton superfluids reveal quantum hydrodynamic solitons , A. Amo, S. Pigeon, D. Sanvitto, V.G. Sala, R. Hivet, I. Carusotto, F. Pisanello, G. Lemenager, R. Houdre, E. Giacobino, C. Ciuti, A. Bramati, Science 332, 1167 (2011)
• One-dimensional microcavity-based optical parametric oscillator: Generation of balanced twin beams in strong and weak coupling regime , M. Abbarchi, V. Ardizzone, T. Lecomte, A. Lemaitre, I. Sagnes, P. Senellart, J. Bloch, P. Roussignol, J. Tignon, Phys. Rev. B 83, 201310 (2011)
• Stark spectroscopy and radiative lifetimes in single self-assembled CdTe quantum dots , L. Klopotowski, V. Voliotis, A. Kudelski, A. I. Tartakovskii, P. Wojnar, A. Le Moal, R. Grousson, O. Krebs, M. Skolnick, G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz, Phys. Rev. B 83, (2011)
• Robust Quantum Dot Exciton Generation via Adiabatic Passage with Frequency-Swept Optical Pulses , C. Simonneau, C.-M. Simon, T. Belhadj, B. Chatel, T. Amand, P. Renucci, A. Lemaitre, O. Krebs, P.A. Dalgarno, R.J. Warburton, X. Marie, B. Urbaszek, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 166801 (2011)
• Interactions in Confined Polariton Condensates , L. Ferrier, E. Wertz, R. Johne, D. Solnyshkov, P. Senellart, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaitre, G. Malpuech, J. Bloch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126401 (2011)
• Wavelength-sized GaAs optomechanical resonators with gigahertz frequency , L. Ding, C. Baker, P. Senellart, A. Lemaitre, S. Ducci, G. Leo, I. Favero, Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 113108 (2011)
• Single-shot initialization of electron spin in a quantum dot using a short optical pulse , V. Loo, L. Lanco, O. Krebs, P. Senellart, P. Voisin, Phys. Rev. B 83, 33301 (2011)
• All-optical control of the quantum flow of a polariton condensate , R. Houdre, D. Sanvitto, S. Pigeon, A. Amo, D. Ballarini, M. De Giorgi , I. Carusotto, R. Hivet, F. Pisanello, V.G. Sala, P.S.S. Guimaraes, R. Houdre, E. Giacobino, C. Ciuti, A. Bramati, G. Gigli, Nat. Phot. 5, 610 (2011)

• Exciton spin dynamics in semiconductor quantum dots , X. Marie, B. Urbaszek, O. Krebs, T. Amand, Spin Physics in Semiconductors 157, chap.4 (2008)
• Tunneling Properties of MOS Systems Based on High-k Oxides , F. Sacconi, A. Pecchia, M. Povolotskyi, A. Di Carlo, J.-M. Jancu, Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices , 153 (2007)
• Les Cristaux photoniques bidimensionnels en optique integre planaire , A. Talneau, La nanophotonique , (2005)