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Title: Metasurface-assisted phase-matching-free second harmonic generation in lithium niobate waveguides

Abstract

The phase-matching condition is a key aspect in nonlinear wavelength conversion processes, which requires the momenta of the photons involved in the processes to be conserved. Conventionally, nonlinear phase matching is achieved using either birefringent or periodically poled nonlinear crystals, which requires careful dispersion engineering and is usually narrowband. In recent years, metasurfaces consisting of densely packed arrays of optical antennas have been demonstrated to provide an effective optical momentum to bend light in arbitrary ways. Here, we demonstrate that gradient metasurface structures consisting of phased array antennas are able to circumvent the phase-matching requirement in on-chip nonlinear wavelength conversion. We experimentally demonstrate phase-matching-free second harmonic generation over many coherent lengths in thin film lithium niobate waveguides patterned with the gradient metasurfaces. Efficient second harmonic generation in the metasurface-based devices is observed over a wide range of pump wavelengths (λ = 1580–1650 nm).

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [5];  [2];  [1]
  1. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
  2. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
  3. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX (United States)
  4. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)
  5. Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics
OSTI Identifier:
1624063
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704; ECCS-1609549; ECCS-1307948; FA9550-14-1-0389; D15AP00111; 61590932; IOSKL2015KF12
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; science & technology; metamaterials; nonlinear optics

Citation Formats

Wang, Cheng, Li, Zhaoyi, Kim, Myoung-Hwan, Xiong, Xiao, Ren, Xi-Feng, Guo, Guang-Can, Yu, Nanfang, and Lončar, Marko. Metasurface-assisted phase-matching-free second harmonic generation in lithium niobate waveguides. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02189-6.
Wang, Cheng, Li, Zhaoyi, Kim, Myoung-Hwan, Xiong, Xiao, Ren, Xi-Feng, Guo, Guang-Can, Yu, Nanfang, & Lončar, Marko. Metasurface-assisted phase-matching-free second harmonic generation in lithium niobate waveguides. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02189-6
Wang, Cheng, Li, Zhaoyi, Kim, Myoung-Hwan, Xiong, Xiao, Ren, Xi-Feng, Guo, Guang-Can, Yu, Nanfang, and Lončar, Marko. Wed . "Metasurface-assisted phase-matching-free second harmonic generation in lithium niobate waveguides". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02189-6. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1624063.
@article{osti_1624063,
title = {Metasurface-assisted phase-matching-free second harmonic generation in lithium niobate waveguides},
author = {Wang, Cheng and Li, Zhaoyi and Kim, Myoung-Hwan and Xiong, Xiao and Ren, Xi-Feng and Guo, Guang-Can and Yu, Nanfang and Lončar, Marko},
abstractNote = {The phase-matching condition is a key aspect in nonlinear wavelength conversion processes, which requires the momenta of the photons involved in the processes to be conserved. Conventionally, nonlinear phase matching is achieved using either birefringent or periodically poled nonlinear crystals, which requires careful dispersion engineering and is usually narrowband. In recent years, metasurfaces consisting of densely packed arrays of optical antennas have been demonstrated to provide an effective optical momentum to bend light in arbitrary ways. Here, we demonstrate that gradient metasurface structures consisting of phased array antennas are able to circumvent the phase-matching requirement in on-chip nonlinear wavelength conversion. We experimentally demonstrate phase-matching-free second harmonic generation over many coherent lengths in thin film lithium niobate waveguides patterned with the gradient metasurfaces. Efficient second harmonic generation in the metasurface-based devices is observed over a wide range of pump wavelengths (λ = 1580–1650 nm).},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-017-02189-6},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Wed Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}

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