HYPER-RAMAN SCATTERING IN MICROCAVITY QUANTUM-WELLS - A QUANTUM OPTICAL PROCESS IN THE STRONG-COUPLING REGIME

We analyze the hyper Raman scattering process in a quantum well grown inside a semiconductor microcavity and present a microscopic calculati on of emission spectra as a function of excitation energy, detuning, a nd angles. The exciton-photon coupling is treated non-perturbatively t o include polariton effects and the Coulomb interaction between electr ons is treated beyond the mean field approximation. The observation of hyper Raman scattering in semiconductor microcavities would represent an important step for the realization of non-classical optical states based on excitons. We find that the polaritons emitted in this scatte ring process are strongly correlated. This correlation, can be efficie ntly transferred to output photons, resulting in emission of two corre lated non-classical light beams. As a probe of the quantum correlation we calculate the output spectrum of fluctuations in the intensity dif ference of the two beams generated in the hyper Raman process.