Magnetic and electric field effects in semiconductor quantum microcavity structures

    T. A. Fisher, A. M. Afshar, D. M. Whittaker, Maurice S. Skolnick, 
    P. Kinsler, J. S. Roberts, G. Hill, M. A. Pate,
    
    Department of Physics/Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
    University of Sheffield, 
    Sheffield S3 7RH, 
    United Kingdom.

    NATO ASI E324, 77 (1996).
    "Microcavities and photonic bandgaps: Physics and Applications", 
        Eds. J. Rarity, C. Weisbuch.

    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-0313-5_7

  The effects of magnetic and electric field on the vacuum Rabi exciton-photon
 coupling in semiconductor quantum microcavity structures are presented. A 
 number of phenomena are described including marked increase (decrease) of the 
 vacuum Rabi coupling in external magnetic (electric) field due to the 
 increased (decreased) exciton oscillator strength, exciton Zeeman splitting, 
 and unusual linewidth narrowing effects attributed to motional narrowing.