Effect of the incoherent scattering of polaritons on the dynamics of stimulated polariton-polariton scattering in GaAs microcavities

It has been found that interband illumination strongly affects the dynamics of parametric polariton scattering in planar GaAs microcavities under resonant photoexcitation above the inflection point of the polariton dispersion curve: illumination with a power density of about 0.1% of the resonance value reduces the threshold density for the appearance of stimulated scattering by more than 15%. It has been shown that the effect is attributed to a change in the resonance energy of the pumped mode due to an increase in the density of long-lived exciton-like polaritons formed owing to the scattering of resonantly-excited polaritons on photoexcited free carriers.