Scaling rules in optomechanical semiconductor micropillars

S. Anguiano, P. Sesin, A. E. Bruchhausen, F. R. Lamberti, I. Favero, M. Esmann, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaître, N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, P. Senellart, and A. FainsteinPhys. Rev. A 98, 063810 (2018) – Published 6 December 2018In this work, the authors study the variation in...

Topological acoustics in coupled nanocavity arrays

M. Esmann, F.R. Lamberti, A. Lemaitre, N.D. Lanzillotti-KimuraPhys. Rev. B 98, 161109(R) – Published 11 October 2018The authors propose an experimentally feasible implementation of the 1D topological Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model in coupled one-dimensional acoustic...

Topological nanophononic states by band inversion

M. Esmann, F.R. Lamberti, P. Senellart, I. Favero, O. Krebs, L. Lanco, C. Gomez Carbonell, A. Lemaître, and N.D. Lanzillotti-KimuraPhys. Rev. B 97, 155422 – Published 19 April 2018The authors introduce the concept of topological invariants to nanophononics and...

Static strain tuning of quantum dots embedded in a photonic wire

D. Tumanov, N. Vaish, H.A. Nguyen, Y. Curé, J.-M. Gérard, J. Claudon, F. Donatini, J.-Ph. PoizatAppl. Phys. Lett. 112, 123102 – Published 21 March 2018In this work, we use strain to statically tune the semiconductor band gap of individual InAs quantum dots (QDs)...