Full-color enhanced second harmonic generation using rainbow trapping in ultrathin hyperbolic metamaterialsShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Nature Communications, E-ISSN 2041-1723, Vol. 12, no 1, article id 6425Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Though metamaterials enhance nonlinear light-matter interactions due to their resonant features, these materials typically show a narrow spectral bandwidth. Here, the authors report broadband enhanced second-harmonic generation in patterned multilayer hyperbolic metamaterial arrays. Metasurfaces have provided a promising approach to enhance the nonlinearity at subwavelength scale, but usually suffer from a narrow bandwidth as imposed by sharp resonant features. Here, we counterintuitively report a broadband, enhanced second-harmonic generation, in nanopatterned hyperbolic metamaterials. The nanopatterning allows the direct access of the mode with large momentum, rendering the rainbow light trapping, i.e. slow light in a broad frequency, and thus enhancing the local field intensity for boosted nonlinear light-matter interactions. For a proof-of-concept demonstration, we fabricated a nanostructured Au/ZnO multilayer, and enhanced second harmonic generation can be observed within the visible wavelength range (400-650 nm). The enhancement factor is over 50 within the wavelength range of 470-650 nm, and a maximum conversion efficiency of 1.13x10(-6) is obtained with a pump power of only 8.80 mW. Our results herein offer an effective and robust approach towards the broadband metasurface-based nonlinear devices for various important technologies.
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Springer Nature , 2021. Vol. 12, no 1, article id 6425
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Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-305131DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26818-3ISI: 000714972500014PubMedID: 34741075Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85118544861OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-305131DiVA, id: diva2:1613188
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2021-11-222021-11-222023-03-28Bibliographically approved