  The strong coupling between an intersubband excitation in a quantum cascade
structure and a photonic mode of a planar microcavity has been detected by
angle-resolved photovoltaic measurements. A typical anticrossing behavior, with
a vacuum-field Rabi splitting of 16 meV at 78K, has been measured, for an
intersubband transition at 163 meV. These results show that the strong coupling
regime between photons and intersubband excitations can be engineered in a
quantum cascade opto-electronic device. They also demonstrate the possibility
to perform angle-resolved mid-infrared photodetection and to develop active
devices based on intersubband cavity polaritons.
