Enhanced optical nonlinearities in the near-infrared using III-nitride heterostructures coupled to metamaterials
Abstract
We use planar metamaterial resonators to enhance, by more than two orders of magnitude, the optical second harmonic generation, in the near infrared, obtained from intersubband transitions in III-Nitride heterostructures. The improvement arises from two factors: employing an asymmetric double quantum well design and aligning the resonators’ cross-polarized resonances with the intersubband transition energies. The resulting nonlinear metamaterial operates at wavelengths where single photon detection is available, and represents a new class of sources for quantum photonics related phenomena.
- Authors:
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- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States). Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Electrical Engineering Dept.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1257989
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1420526
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-2015-6605J
Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951; APPLAB; 641909
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Physics Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 107; Journal Issue: 15; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS
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Wolf, Omri, Allerman, Andrew A., Ma, Xuedan, Wendt, Joel R., Song, Alex Y., Shaner, Eric A., and Brener, Igal. Enhanced optical nonlinearities in the near-infrared using III-nitride heterostructures coupled to metamaterials. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4933332.
Wolf, Omri, Allerman, Andrew A., Ma, Xuedan, Wendt, Joel R., Song, Alex Y., Shaner, Eric A., & Brener, Igal. Enhanced optical nonlinearities in the near-infrared using III-nitride heterostructures coupled to metamaterials. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4933332
Wolf, Omri, Allerman, Andrew A., Ma, Xuedan, Wendt, Joel R., Song, Alex Y., Shaner, Eric A., and Brener, Igal. Thu .
"Enhanced optical nonlinearities in the near-infrared using III-nitride heterostructures coupled to metamaterials". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4933332. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1257989.
@article{osti_1257989,
title = {Enhanced optical nonlinearities in the near-infrared using III-nitride heterostructures coupled to metamaterials},
author = {Wolf, Omri and Allerman, Andrew A. and Ma, Xuedan and Wendt, Joel R. and Song, Alex Y. and Shaner, Eric A. and Brener, Igal},
abstractNote = {We use planar metamaterial resonators to enhance, by more than two orders of magnitude, the optical second harmonic generation, in the near infrared, obtained from intersubband transitions in III-Nitride heterostructures. The improvement arises from two factors: employing an asymmetric double quantum well design and aligning the resonators’ cross-polarized resonances with the intersubband transition energies. The resulting nonlinear metamaterial operates at wavelengths where single photon detection is available, and represents a new class of sources for quantum photonics related phenomena.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4933332},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
number = 15,
volume = 107,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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