Abstract

Normal mode coupling (NMC) in semiconductor microcavities was first observed by Weisbuch et al.[1] Most semiconductor microcavity NMC samples have contained several, presumably identical, quantum wells (QWs) giving rise to reflectivity spectra with two dips in the nonperturbative regime. Here we have grown QWs with transition energy differences much larger than the linewidth in order to study NMC of three coupled oscillators, one the cavity and the other two the nonidentical QWs. This is in contradistinction to the results reported by Stanley et al.[2] who study two coupled cavities containing three identical QWs in each. Theoretically, double QWs in a microcavity have been considered recently by Panzarini and Andreani[3] and Ivchenko et al.[4].

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