We create a one-dimensional photonic crystal with strong polarization dependence and tunable by an applied electric field.We accomplish this in a planar microcavity by embedding a cholesteric liquid crystal (LC), which spontaneously forms a uniform lying helix (ULH). The applied voltage controls the orientation of the LC molecules and, consequently, the strength of a polarization-dependent periodic potential. It leads to opening or closing of photonic band gaps in the dispersion of the massive photons in the microcavity. In addition, when the ULH structure possesses a molecular tilt, it induces a spin-orbit coupling between the lattice bands of different parity. This interband spin-orbit coupling (ISOC) is analogous to optical activity and can be treated as a synthetic non-Abelian gauge potential.Finally, we show that doping the LC with dyes allows us to achieve lasing that inherits all the above-mentioned tunable properties of LC microcavity, including dual and circularly-polarized lasing.

This archive contains all raw datasets corresponding to each figure of the article "Ridge polariton laser: different from a semiconductor edge-emitting laser", by H. Souissi et al., published in Phys. Rev. Applied 18, 044029 (2022) (doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.18.044029) The arxiv version of the article is available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04348 A sub-folder is associated to each figure (including the figures of the Supplemental Document), with the .csv files for each panel of the figure.

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This archive contains all raw datasets corresponding to each figure of the article "Mode-locked waveguide polariton laser", by H. Souissi et al. The arxiv version of the article is available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18661 A sub-folder is associated to each figure (including the figures of the Supplemental Document), with the .csv files for each panel of the figure.

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