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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Shivangi Shree, Delphine Lagarde, Laurent Lombez, Cedric Robert, Andrea Balocchi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Xavier Marie, Iann C. Gerber, Mikhail M. Glazov, Leonid E. Golub, Bernhard Urbaszek, Ioannis Paradisanos
Summary: Efficient second-harmonic generation (SHG) occurs for crystals with broken inversion symmetry, such as transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers. Here the authors show SHG tuning in bilayer MoS2 - an inversion-symmetric crystal - mediated by interlayer excitons.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
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Optics
Sebastian Klimmer, Omid Ghaebi, Ziyang Gan, Antony George, Andrey Turchanin, Giulio Cerullo, Giancarlo Soavi
Summary: The study demonstrates a new method of achieving second-harmonic generation in MoS2 through all-optical modulation, with a modulation depth close to 100%, providing flexibility for the design of advanced nonlinear optical devices.
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Chemistry, Physical
Hui Zhao, Qichang An, X. Ye, B. H. Yu, Q. H. Zhang, F. Sun, Q. Y. Zhang, Fang Yang, Jiandong Guo, Jimin Zhao
Summary: By tuning the number of interfaces in LaTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattices, the non-linear optical susceptibility and second harmonic generation pattern can be controlled. AB-type nanostructures can also generate SHG signals, unlike traditional ABC-type nanostructures. Furthermore, temperature dependence and structural phase transition can enhance the intensity of SHG signals.
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yann Foucaud, Bertrand Siboulet, Magali Duvail, Alban Jonchere, Olivier Diat, Rodolphe Vuilleumier, Jean-Francois Dufreche
Summary: A breakthrough method has been developed to predict and interpret SHG signal at the atomic level, showing the significant impact of bulk quadrupole contribution in the SHG response. The experimental results are in unprecedented agreement with the simulated responses.
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Hauke Conradi, Almontaserbillah Hakmi, Moritz Kleinert, Lars Liebermeister, David de Felipe, Madeleine Weigel, Martin Kresse, Crispin Zawadzki, Bjoern Globisch, Norbert Keil, Ronald Freund, Martin Schell
Summary: In this study, second harmonic generation from 1550 to 775 nm was demonstrated in a polymer photonic integrated circuit via the hybrid integration of a periodically poled lithium niobate crystal. Fiber to fiber conversion efficiencies were found to be 0.03%/W for a continuous wave laser source and 100%/W for a femtosecond laser source. Additionally, third and fourth harmonic light at 517 and 388 nm was observed.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
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Optics
Xin Chen, Leszek Mateusz Mazur, Dawei Liu, Shan Liu, Xin Liu, Zhuo Xu, Xiaoyong Wei, Junli Wang, Yan Sheng, Zhiyi Wei, Wieslaw Krolikowski
Summary: In this study, we fabricated quadratic nonlinearity gratings in a tetragonal PMN-38PT crystal using an all-optical poling method and applied them in quasi-phase matched collinear second harmonic generation. By measuring the second harmonic output, we provided quantitative estimates of all three non-zero quadratic nonlinearity coefficients of the PMN-38PT crystal for the first time.
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Simone Zanotti, Momchil Minkov, Shanhui Fan, Lucio C. Andreani, Dario Gerace
Summary: This work reviews a strategy to design doubly-resonant nanocavities with low mode volume and large quality factor via localized defects in a photonic crystal structure, utilizing an evolutionary optimization algorithm and Maxwell equations solvers. The calculated second-harmonic generation efficiency in typical III-V semiconductor materials may stimulate the realization of small footprint photonic nanostructures with unprecedented nonlinear efficiencies in leading semiconductor material platforms.
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Optics
Yang Gao, Bin Ge
Summary: In this study, the second harmonic generation in tilted Dirac/Weyl semimetals was theoretically investigated using quantum theory, deriving an analytical formula for the second harmonic conductivity tensor. The conductivity showed contributions from both intraband and interband-intraband transitions at different frequency regions. Additionally, the high-frequency region exhibited resonant peaks in the nonlinear conductance due to the two-photon absorption process, revealing a high nonlinear susceptibility in Dirac/Weyl semimetals.
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Mingwen Zhang, Nannan Han, Jing Wang, Zhihong Zhang, Kaihui Liu, Zhipei Sun, Jianlin Zhao, Xuetao Gan
Summary: This study reports that redox-governed charge doping can effectively break the centrosymmetry of bilayer graphene, enabling a strong second harmonic generation (SHG). Control experiments confirm this result and demonstrate that charge doping is an effective method to break the inversion symmetry of bilayer graphene, and SHG spectroscopy is a valid technique to probe molecular doping on two-dimensional materials.
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yang Zhou, Nan He, Zheshuai Lin, Xiaoying Shang, Xueyuan Chen, Yanqiang Li, Weiqi Huang, Maochun Hong, Sangen Zhao, Junhua Luo
Summary: This study reports a non-pi-conjugated molecular crystal, NH3BH3, which achieves a subtle balance between second-harmonic generation, bandgap, and birefringence. NH3BH3 exhibits a large second-harmonic generation response, deep-UV transparency, and moderate birefringence. It is considered a promising candidate for deep-UV nonlinear optical applications.
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
D. G. Jeong, J. S. Lee
Summary: In this study, a surface symmetry discriminator is developed to characterize the structural symmetry of condensed matters using optical second-harmonic generation technique. The discriminator utilizes neural network architectures for deep learning and provides a weighted sum of results.
RESULTS IN PHYSICS
(2022)
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Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Bin Zhang, Yuqing Huang, Fuxiang Ji, Xiaohe Miao, Feng Gao, Weimin M. Chen, Irina A. Buyanova
Summary: We report the first observation of second harmonic generation (SHG) from halide double perovskite single crystals. The SHG efficiency of these materials with centrosymmetric crystalline structures is strongly dependent on the measurement temperature, increasing by up to 3 orders of magnitude at low temperatures under light illumination. The enhancement is attributed to the build-up of a light-induced electric field within the near-surface region.
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Fan Yang, Cristian Ciraci
Summary: We present a theoretical study on second-harmonic generation from a singular metasurface, which strongly interacts with incident light and generates intense surface polarization, resulting in the generation of second-harmonic field. By using transformation optics, the calculation of nonlinear optical response is simplified, and the dependence on the incident angle is weak, making it potentially useful for all-angle harmonic generation. Furthermore, we investigate the symmetry dependence of second-harmonic generation in the far field and demonstrate an enhanced conversion efficiency under normal incidence by breaking the surface inversion symmetry.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Guillaume Revillod, Julien Duboisset, Isabelle Russier-Antoine, Emmanuel Benichou, Christian Jonin, Pierre-Francois Brevet
Summary: A general model has been developed to describe the polarization-resolved second harmonic scattering (SHS) response from a liquid solution of molecular aggregates, considering both coherent and incoherent contributions based on the spatial order of the molecules. The model shows that the SHS response can differentiate between centrosymmetric and non-centrosymmetric spatial arrangements of the nonlinear dipoles, providing insights into the spatial arrangements of dyes in aggregates despite their small nanoscale dimensions.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Shingo Toyoda, Manfred Fiebig, Taka-hisa Arima, Yoshinori Tokura, Naoki Ogawa
Summary: Mirror symmetries play a crucial role in fundamental properties and conservation laws, with potential magnetoelectric cross-coupling when both spatial inversion and time reversal are broken. The giant nonreciprocal optical response observed in SHG of CuB2O4 is due to interference between magnetic-dipole and electric-dipole contributions, showing the potential for nonreciprocal nonlinear optical functionalities in multiferroics and magnetoelectrics. Resonantly enhanced magnetic-dipole transitions contribute significantly to the nonreciprocity, maximizing the effect despite the inherently weaker nature compared to electric-dipole transitions.