Title :
Coherent second harmonic generation in a quantum well-metasurface coupled system
Author :
Wolf, Omri ; Campione, Salvatore ; Benz, Alexander ; Ravikumar, Arvind P. ; Sheng Liu ; Kadlec, Emil A. ; Shaner, Eric A. ; Klem, John F. ; Sinclair, Michael B. ; Brener, Igal
Author_Institution :
Center for Integrated Nanotechnol., Sandia Nat. Labs., Albuquerque, NM, USA
Abstract :
Strongly coupling metallic nanoresonators with specially designed intersubband-transitions in quantum-wells results in efficient, saturation-limited second-harmonic (SH) generation. This method also grants full control over the polarization and phase-front of the emitted SH radiation.
Keywords :
light coherence; light polarisation; nanophotonics; optical harmonic generation; optical metamaterials; optical resonators; semiconductor quantum wells; coherent second harmonic generation; emitted second-harmonic radiation; intersubband-transitions; metallic nanoresonators; phase-front; polarization; quantum well-metasurface coupled system; saturation-limited second-harmonic generation; Frequency conversion; Frequency measurement; Laboratories; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Optical resonators; Resonant frequency;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
