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We have investigated the dynamics of impulsively excited planar microcavities in the strongly couple regime. With resonant, coherent excitation, the emitted light shows vacuum-Rabi oscillations and a lifetime corresponding to twice the cavity lifetime. As the light intensity is increased, the exciton bleaching leads to reduced normal-mode splitting. The role of interface disorder on the dynamic splitting is discussed. Coherence transfer in exciton-exciton scattering is observed. Off-resonant excitation leads to long lifetimes limited by scattering into the radiatively coupled states of the exciton-cavity system.
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Norris, T.B., Rhee, J.K., Citrin, D.S. et al. Coherent and incoherent dynamics of excitons in semiconductor microcavities. Il Nuovo Cimento D 17, 1295–1303 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02457201
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