Absence of Long-Range Coherence in the Parametric Emission from Photonic Wires

Authors:
  • MWM. Wouters
    M. Wouters
  • ICI. Carusotto
    I. Carusotto

Abstract
We analytically investigate the spatial coherence of the emission from one-dimensional optical parametric oscillators, in particular semiconductor photonic wires in the strong exciton-photon coupling regime. Due to the presence of a soft Goldstone mode, quantum fluctuations are able to destroy the long-range phase coherence even far above threshold. The spatial decay of coherence is at least exponential and occurs for realistic parameters on an experimentally accessible length scale.