Control of second-harmonic generation in all-dielectric intersubband metasurfaces by controlling the polarity of χ(2)
Abstract
All-dielectric metasurfaces have recently led to a paradigm shift in nonlinear optics as they allow for circumventing the phase matching constraints of bulk crystals and offer high nonlinear conversion efficiencies when normalized by the light-matter interaction volume. Unlike bulk crystals, in all-dielectric metasurfaces nonlinear conversion efficiencies primarily rely on the material nonlinearity, field enhancements, and the modal overlaps, therefore most efforts to date have only focused on utilizing these degrees of freedom. In this work, we demonstrate that for second-harmonic generation in all-dielectric metasurfaces, an additional degree of freedom is the control of the polarity of the nonlinear susceptibility. We demonstrate that semiconductor heterostructures that support resonant nonlinearities based on quantum-engineered intersubband transitions provide this new degree of freedom. We can flip and control the polarity of the nonlinear susceptibility of the dielectric medium along the growth direction and couple it to the Mie-type photonic modes. Here we demonstrate that engineering the χ(2) polarity in the meta-atom enables the control of the second-harmonic radiation pattern and conversion efficiency. Our results therefore open a new direction for engineering and optimizing second-harmonic generation using all-dielectric intersubband nonlinear metasurfaces.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Sep 07, 2022
- Source ID
- 10.1364/oe.468709
Entities
People
- Domenico De Ceglia
- Igal Brener
- J. F. Klem
- Jiaming Xu
- Luca Carletti
- Mikhail A. Belkin
- Raktim Sarma
Organizations
- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Ministry of Education, Universities and Research
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Technical University of Munich
- University of Brescia
- University of Texas at Austin