This article reviews recent theoretical and experimental advances in the fundamental
understanding and active control of quantum fluids of light in nonlinear optical systems. In …

From a theoretical point of view, we discuss a variety of phenomena linked to the spin and
polarization degree of freedom of exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities. We start …

Although optical technology provides the best solution for the transmission of information, all-
optical devices must satisfy several qualitative criteria to be used as logic elements. In …

Microcavities are semiconductor, metal, or dielectric structures providing optical confinement
in one, two or three dimensions. At the end of the 20th century, microcavities have attracted …

Microcavity polaritons are composite half-light half-matter quasiparticles, which have
recently been demonstrated to exhibit rich physical properties, such as non-equilibrium …

By exploiting the polarization multistability of polaritons, we show that polarized signals can
be conducted in the plane of a semiconductor microcavity along controlled channels or …

New effects of polarization multistability and polarization hysteresis in a coherently driven
polariton system in a semiconductor microcavity are predicted and theoretically analyzed …

Semiconductor microcavities, in which strong coupling of excitons to confined photon modes
leads to the formation of exciton–polariton modes, have increasingly become a focus for the …

We review the current hopes for applications of exciton–polaritons in semiconductor
microcavities. These quasi-particles have become distinguished in recent years for a variety …

We investigate the physics of coherent polaritons in a double-well configuration under a
resonant pumping. For a continuous-wave pump, bistability and self-pulsing regimes are …