Ultrafast Plasmonic Control of Second Harmonic Generation

Davidson, Roderick B.; Yanchenko, Anna; Ziegler, Jed I.; Avanesyan, Sergey M.; Lawrie, Benjamin J.; Haglund, Richard F.

doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00034

Ultrafast Plasmonic Control of Second Harmonic Generation

Journal Article · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · ACS Photonics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00034· OSTI ID:1364273

Davidson, Roderick B. ^[1]; Yanchenko, Anna ^[2]; Ziegler, Jed I. ^[3]; Avanesyan, Sergey M. ^[3]; Lawrie, Benjamin J. ^[4]; Haglund, Richard F. ^[3]

Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Computational Sciences and Engineering Division
Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States). Dept. of Physics
Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Computational Sciences and Engineering Division

Efficient frequency conversion techniques are crucial to the development of plasmonic metasurfaces for information processing and signal modulation. In principle, nanoscale electric-field confinement in nonlinear materials enables higher harmonic conversion efficiencies per unit volume than those attainable in bulk materials. Here we demonstrate efficient second-harmonic generation (SHG) in a serrated nanogap plasmonic geometry that generates steep electric field gradients on a dielectric metasurface. An ultrafast control pulse is used to control plasmon-induced electric fields in a thin-film material with inversion symmetry that, without plasmonic enhancement, does not exhibit an even-order nonlinear optical response. The temporal evolution of the plasmonic near-field is characterized with ~100 as resolution using a novel nonlinear interferometric technique. The serrated nanogap is a unique platform in which to investigate optically controlled, plasmonically enhanced harmonic generation in dielectric materials on an ultrafast time scale. Lastly, this metamaterial geometry can also be readily extended to all-optical control of other nonlinear phenomena, such as four-wave mixing and sum- and difference-frequency generation, in a wide variety of dielectric materials.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; FG02-01ER45916

OSTI ID:: 1364273

Journal Information:: ACS Photonics, Journal Name: ACS Photonics Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 3; ISSN 2330-4022

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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